Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French police on Thursday caught a second inmate who had escaped from prison in late November by sawing through cell bars and ...

Aspects of daily life behind bars include cells so crowded that detainees cannot move without climbing over one another, and inmates sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor for weeks or months.

Two prisoners escaped from a French jail using bed sheets after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said Thursday. France has some of the worst prison overcrowding in Europe, and staff ...

French police on Thursday caught a second inmate who had escaped from prison in late November by sawing through cell bars and using bedsheets, sources close to the case told AFP. The 19-year-old ...