France has the European Union’s most overcrowded prisons
Foreign nationals account for about a quarter of inmates — around three times their share of the country's population.
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Foreign nationals account for about a quarter of inmates — around three times their share of the country's population.
The French Government is preparing measures for automatic or facilitated early releases of certain prisoners as a way to ease chronic and record-level overcrowding…
Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy could soon find himself behind bars in Paris’ notorious La Santé prison, according to French media.
Sweden and Estonia have reached an agreement allowing the Nordic country to rent cells in Estonian prisons.
French justice minister Gérald Darmanin said several French prisons had been hit in a wave of reportedly co-ordinated attacks.
Belgium's prison system has announced the early release to 139 prisoners in a bid to combat overpopulation in the country's jails.
Footage has emerged showing a man of Indian descent being brutally tortured in a Belgian prison in Antwerp over a period of several days.
Most would say prison is supposed to feel like a punishment, but for one Brussels-based criminal, the opposite was true.