Campaigners filed a complaint against the French state Monday, denouncing overcrowding and filthy conditions in a prison near Paris infested with rats, cockroaches and bedbugs.
A French prisoner has had six more months tacked onto his sentence after he broadcast live from his cell and fielded questions about life in jail from curious law abiders.
In a brazen daylight escape, armed men busted a French drug kingpin out of police custody on Tuesday at a hospital. The trafficker is considered one of the "godfathers" of the drug world in the Paris area.
A Frenchman recently released on parole purposefully cut off his electronic tag, knowing he would be sent back to prison. The reason why? He was desperate to get away from his girlfriend.
A French fetishist was so smitten with an elderly lady’s feet he burst into the terrified woman's home and proceeded to sniff, lick and rub them as she lay helpless. The lewd act cost him 18 months behind bars.
Four Frenchmen convicted of trying and failing to fight 'holy war' abroad were handed up to seven years behind bars by a court on Monday. The men tried to reach Pakistan, Somalia and Afghanistan.
Prison authorities at a jail in eastern France have been left with some explaining to do after two videos – one showing a dozen inmates doing a particularly enthusiastic version of the Harlem Shake – appeared on YouTube in recent days.
A French mother went on trial on Monday, charged with holding down her four-year-old son while his stepfather raped him repeatedly in a prison visiting room. The couple are accused of having covered the room's windows with bin bags to obstruct the view of guards.
The French state are ready to pay compensation to an innocent man, wrongly jailed after he was mistaken for a child rapist with the same name, his lawyer said on Monday. However the lawyer blasted the offer of €12,000 ($16,000) in damages as "ridiculous".
Prisoners at a jail in France staged a mutiny on Monday when around 60 of them went on the rampage after an inmate was found dead in his cell, authorities reported. Riot officers were called in to quell the disturbance.
A French prisoner hacked off his own finger and sent it to Justice Minister Christiane Taubira in an attempt to accelerate his transfer to a different jail.
<p>Two brothers have been sentenced to eight months in jail after blocking an ambulance which was rushing a 7-year-old to hospital near Paris. One of the pair blamed his actions on the fact that he hadn't had his first coffee and cigarette of the day.</p>
<p>The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday condemned France for inhumane and degrading treatment of a prisoner detained in an evil-smelling, burnt-out cell.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A court in Ho Chi Minh City jailed a French-Vietnamese lecturer and blogger for three years Wednesday for attempted subversion, the latest conviction of a peaceful democracy advocate in Vietnam.</span></p>
