France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s ...

Deep in the Amazon jungle, France plans to open a $450 million high-security prison to isolate drug lords and radical ...

The transfer of convicts to other colonies is associated with the repair work in the industrial zone "Vitsba" - the ...

France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and radical Islamists near a former penal colony in ...

A bullet fired by a Russian sniper hit Azov Brigade member Artem Dubyna in the head and passed through his neck. Evacuating ...

The head of Russia's only independent election watchdog was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in a penal colony after ...

Australia's government said Saturday it was "appalled" by a Russian-controlled court's 13-year penal colony sentence for an ...

The facility more than 7,000 kilometres from mainland France will include a “high-security unit” designed to house drug trafficking convicts and “Islamists”.

France will build a high-security prison in the Amazon to isolate drug lords and gang leaders amid rising violence in ...

Sydney (AFP) – Australia's government said Saturday it was "appalled" by a Russian-controlled court's 13-year penal colony sentence for an Australian man who was captured while fighting for Ukraine.

Denis Gorin, 45, from the town of Aniva in the Sakhalin region of the country, was sentenced in 2018 to 22 years in a penal colony. The sentence was imposed for Gorin's act of stabbing a man to ...