The Island Prison That Drove Men Insane
France transported approximately 80,000 men to its penal colony in French Guiana between 1852 and 1953.
Fewer than 2,000 ever returned.
The colony didn't need walls. The jungle and the sharks handled that. The records of what happened there still exist.
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