(CNN) — 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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

GREEN ISLAND, Taiwan | It isn't exactly Devil's Island, but a verdant speck of land off the Taiwanese coast shares a good measure of the former French penal colony's dark notoriety -- and that is ...