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Lunching with the ghosts of Devil's Island

By John Hirst

Lunching with the ghosts of Devil's Island br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/images/2008/12/22/devilsisland_2.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 385px; height: 288px;" src="http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/images/2008/12/22/devilsisland_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" //abr /br /a href="http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2008/12/lunching-with-t.html"This could be a picture of any tropical island, but it's one with a terrifying past. l'Ile du Diable -- Devil's Island -- is the loneliest part of the South American penal colony to which France sent convicts for a century/a.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/images/2008/12/22/bagne_ile_du_salut_21.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 168px;" src="http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/images/2008/12/22/bagne_ile_du_salut_21.jpg" border="0" alt="" //abr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/images/2008/12/22/convict_cell.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 270px;" src="http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/images/2008/12/22/convict_cell.jpg" border="0" alt="" //a

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).