PENAL COLONIES
FRENCH GUIANA
ABOLITION DECREE
(Received June 30, 1 p.m.}
PARIS, June 29. Devil Island and all other penal establishments in French Guiana ar« abolished by a decree which enforces the provisions of a Bill introduced in Parliament in 1936 and which has actually been observed ever since. Since then convicts sentenced to deportation, have remained in the prisons in France. ■ Those now in Guiana will not be r> patriated, but allowed to die out.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 9
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76PENAL COLONIES Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 9
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