Michel Pierre is the author of
Le Temps des prisons
(Éditions Tallandier, 2017).
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In Guyana, the prison comes out of the shadows
LE FIGARO.
- What are the intentions of the Second Empire in creating the penal colony of Guyana?
Michael PIERRE.
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Napoleon III sees in it the double possibility of punishment through exile and redemption through work.
He took the example of Australia, thinking that the colonies would benefit from free labour, which, in time, could populate and develop a strategic French territory.
From a decree of 1852 and a law of 1854, we will therefore exile a whole population of people condemned to forced labor.
A mass of several thousand people who are considered dangerous, unprofitable and socially contagious will leave France.
Their return to mainland France is impossible in the event of a sentence of 8 years or more of forced labor.
If the sentence is less, it is the "doubling", that is to say the obligation to remain in Guyana, even released, a time equivalent to the duration of the sentence already served...
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