Because France will build high-security prisons in French Guiana, offshore incarceration normalizes. This revives penal-colony logics to house drug/terror convicts beyond mainland scrutiny.
— Tests human-rights oversight, legal jurisdiction, and colonial legacies in EU carceral policy; sets a precedent for exporting incarceration to peripheral territories.
Harrison Stetler
2025.08.19
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Darmanin announced new high-security prison facilities in French Guiana to hold major drug and terrorism convicts.
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