The revolution produced some of the most brilliant fighters in world history: Toussaint Louverture, who led the revolt until his capture in 1802 and subsequent death in a French prison ...

Anti-organized crime specialist investigators probing a wave of attacks on prisons and prison staff in France are looking at ...

Multiple French prisons have been attacked in recent nights, including with automatic weapons, in what the justice minister said on Tuesday was a response to a government clamp-down on a drug ...

The fires broke out around 5.20am on a fenced car park reserved for staff, Tarascon prosecutor Laurent Gumbau told the French news agency AFP. “One of the vehicles belonged to a prison officer ...

Two issues, the researcher noted, have "never been addressed" politically: Haiti's debt and the compensation paid to slave owners in the French Caribbean following the abolition of slavery in 1848.