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- France will build a new €400 million high-security prison in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana, announced by Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin in May 2025.
- The plan follows recent violent attacks on prisons in mainland France and aims to address chronic overcrowding and the growing drug trafficking threat in the territory.
- The facility, to open as early as 2028, will hold up to 500 inmates including drug traffickers and radical Islamists, with a separate wing for the most dangerous prisoners.
- Darmanin said the prison's remote location will isolate criminal leaders and prevent contacts with networks, describing an "extremely strict carceral regime" to incapacitate them.
- The project has drawn criticism from local officials who oppose housing mainland criminals in the region, arguing that French Guiana needs social infrastructure like schools and roads instead.
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France to Construct Prison in Amazon Jungle to Combat Drug-Trafficking
Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest. Credits: Lubasi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons France will construct a new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, within its overseas territory of French Guiana. The aim is to isolate top drug traffickers and gang leaders, keeping them far from mainland criminal networks, officials announced this week. The facility will cost €400 million (about $449 million) and is expected to open by 2028. It …
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Prison exterior Most prisons tend to be located in fairly remote areas for a multitude of reasons. That is certainly the case with one that will be used to hold some prisoners from France who will soon be shipped off to a facility in the middle of the Amazon rainforest in an attempt to crack down on issues plaguing the country’s domestic system. I feel like most people are aware that Australia experienced a population boom around the turn of the…
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