Dominique Pelicot receives a 20-year sentence for orchestrating the mass sexual assault of his wife, Gisèle, over a decade.

At the end of October, the International Prison Observatory and some 30 other organisations, including the French lawyers' union, the magistrates' union and the barristers' union, issued a joint ...

French prisons are now more overcrowded than ever, with up to four people sharing single-occupancy cells as the number of inmates continues to surge beyond capacity. Justice Ministry figures from last ...