Notorious French drug baron Mohamed Amra, known as "The Fly", was on Thursday transferred to a new supermax prison, built to stop narcotics criminals from plying their trade from behind bars. He is ...

The ISIS recruiter who lured Melbourne teenager ‘Jihad’ Jake Bilardi to be a suicide bomber in Iraq will die in “Supermax” ...

PARIS (AP) — They are France ‘s most dangerous drug kingpins, according to the country’s justice minister — prison inmates so wealthy and powerful that even behind bars, they can contin… ...

Reform UK’s new justice adviser has called for the UK to introduce US-style “supermax” prisons. Vanessa Frake, a former ...

PARIS (AP) — They are France ‘s most dangerous drug kingpins, according to the country’s justice minister — prison inmates so wealthy and powerful that even behind bars, they can contin… ...

Still, Vendin-le-Vieil's lock-up conditions are exceptional, similar to the ultra-secure "Supermax" prison in the United States and Italy's tough "carcere duro" incarceration rules for Mafia members.

They wanted a judge to recuse himself from the review of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence, but a federal appeals court ...