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Cayenne's Prison

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  • "Le garçon de famille". Illustration de bagnard au bagne de Cayenne.jpg

    Photo by Unknown authorUnknown author via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • A Cayenne le dortoir du pénitencier.jpg

    Photo by Unknown early 1900s via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Plan du pénitencier de l'Ilet la Mère, Voyage dans la Guyane française Hachette, 1866, Cartographie.png

    Photo by Frédéric Bouyer et Édouard Charton (dir.) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Révolte des anarchistes sur le navire qui les transporte au bagne de Cayenne, le 10 septembre 1894.jpg

    Photo by Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Capacity

Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

1852

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1852

Region

Security level

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

No conditions summary available yet.

Visiting

No visiting information available.

Mailing

No mailing information available.

Practical info

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Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Contact & address

No public contact details available.

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Data completeness

16%

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