France plans to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest near the site of the notorious Devil's Island penal colony in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana. Bordering Suriname, the new Bastille will cost French taxpayers a total 400 million euros ($451 million) and will also house a court. This jungle dungeon would incarcerate drug kingpins and radical Islamists, including 60 maximum-security prisoners. How much de-forestation to build this 500-inmate gulag in not clear. Map: Link One

Man's inhumanity to man is on full display again. As the Trump administration is exporting undesirables to faraway and brutal destinations, now Emmanuel Macron will be returning to this archaic, cruel, and expensive punishment. How will families in France be able afford to visit their transatlantic imprisoned relations? Decades ago, Josef Stalin said: "No person, no problem." EU info on prisons: Link Two