France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon,” starring ...

French researcher Laurent Vinatier, sentenced by Russia to three years in prison in a case condemned by Paris, has been transferred to a transit penal colony, his family told AFP Thursday. The ...

In the 1900s, a growing number of boys aged over 16 were sent to Les Douaires in Normandy. Rumours spread of frequent sexual ...

For the first time in a century, there were no prisoners last week in Cayenne Penal Colony, the equatorial prison long known as “Devil’s Island.” The last 58 beaten, broken convicts were transferred ...

MEXICO CITY - Six inmates from the last island penal colony in the Americas were recaptured at sea after they used buoyant containers and wood planks to try to swim to freedom in an escape reminiscent ...