Devil's Island (Kourou) as historical monuments. Since tourism facilities have been added, the islands now receive more than 50,000 tourists each year. Devil's Island (Kourou) Devil's Island (French: Île du Diable) is the third-largest island of the Salvation's Islands, an island group in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately 14 km (9 mi) off the coast of French Guiana in South America just north of the town of Kourou. It has an area of 14 ha (34.6 acres). The island was a part of a controversial French penal colony located in French Guiana for 101 years, from 1852 to 1953. Although it
Mettray Penal Colony than 17,000 boys had passed its doors, and it had become the most well-known institution of its kind. The site is still accessible to visitors at Mettray Penal colony has become more than just a model prison for boys in the work of Michel Foucault. In "Discipline and Punish" Foucault denotes the opening of Mettray prison as the most significant change in the modern status of prisons. He writes: "Were I to fix the date of completion of the carceral system... [t]he date I would choose would be 22 January 1840, the date of the official opening of Mettray. Or