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| Between 1852 and 1953, Devil’s Island off the French Guiana coast was a brutal French penal colony. The island housed political prisoners, while common convicts were kept in camps in the mainland towns of Kourou and Saint-Laurent du Maroni. In 1938 the French began shutting the prison system down, but the last inmates were not sent back to France until 1953. | ||||||
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| Devil’s Island; French Guiana; French Guiana; Devil’s Island | ||||||
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