The Island was a place for France to send its prisoners. There were three levels that the prisoners could be classified in because of their behavior. They are as followed:

1. Habitual Criminals- permitted to work

2. Political Criminals- permitted to limited liberty

If a prisoner was sentenced to 8 years or less, they had to spend that sentence in French Guiana. From 1885 charges o

Papillon is a movie staring Steve McQueen (nicknamed Papillon because of the butterfly on his chest) and Dustin Hoffman (who played Louis Dega, a man protected by Papillon in exchange for financial help for escape plans). This movie was released in 1973. As seen in the movie, some prisoners that had already served their time worked on the island hunting prisoners that tired to escape. There weren't that many to hunt because many of the prisoners were sick and had no where to go but the jungles.

This movie was based on the life of Henri Cherriere and the events he faced on Devil's Island. At the age of twenty-five, Cherriere was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana for a murder he never committed. He was sent to solitary confinement forty

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