Notorious for being a French Prison (think of the movie, “Papillion”), this is actually a cluster of three tiny islands: Isle Royale, St. Joseph, and Devil’s Island. We actually visited Isle Royale, but the other two were just across a narrow channel. Today, the islands are still part of France, as French Guyana is a French department. Isle Royale held the Administration and the least dangerous of the prisoners during the prison era, which ended in the late 1940s, while Devil’s Island held the worst of the prisoners. St. Joseph’s was somewhere in between.