What was Guyana’s jail? Understand in three minutes | EUROtoday

Gérald Darmanin, introduced, on Saturday May 17, his need to create a excessive safety district sooner or later jail of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, in Guyana, to incarcerate there “The most dangerous profiles of drug trafficking”. The Minister of Justice has since excluded that this district is internet hosting prisoners from France after robust criticisms, particularly, from native elected officers and the Guyana native authority. The latter notably denounced the shortage of session with native elected officers and certified the remarks of the Minister of “Reconstitution of the prison of very bad taste”.

A colonial jail was formally opened in Guyana in 1854. It is a detention heart the place convicts are sentenced to pressured labor. Quickly a number of prints opened in Guyana and have become the image of French repression in its colonies. Convicted in France, these thought-about harmful for society had been despatched to those distant facilities of central energy to serve their sentence.

In all, practically 70,000 women and men might be despatched to Guyana. In this video we return to the historical past of this repressive instrument, from its implementation to its progressive abolition. To go additional, we invite you to learn this interview with the historian Michel Pierre under.