How to look famous prison-island (photos)
Most museums, but some still are.
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Spike, Ireland
Spike island in Cork harbour was once a Victorian prison. Prisoners were kept here from 1847 to 1883. Some fell on a spike for what today is not considered a crime. They were sentenced to hard labor.
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A real hell on earth was considered the imprisonment in solitary confinement. On the island, killing more than a thousand prisoners. They are buried in unmarked mass graves.
Today, the island attracts many tourists.
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Alcatraz, USA
Alcatraz in the Bay of San Francisco- an island that needs no introduction. He is well known for Hollywood films and books. First, the island has a protective Fort, then a military prison and then a Federal prison for dangerous criminals.
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The prison operated on the island 30 years before closing in 1963. Here was incarcerated al Capone, machine Gun Kelly, and other criminals. In 1973, the island opened to tourists. It is visited annually by about one million visitors.
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To Robben island, South Africa
This island in the Atlantic ocean is located 12 km from Cape town. The name Robben means “seal island” — once here, many of the things these animals. From 1846 to 1931, on the island operated colony leprosarium, but were exiled here not only leprosy patients, but is considered insane or not.
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Later, during the apartheid regime, Robben island was a state maximum-security prison regime. It contained Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Robert Sobukwe and other fighters for rights and freedoms.
The last prisoner left the island in 1991, but five years to Robben island remained a prison. Now the island is a world heritage site and a popular tourist destination.
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Devil’s island, French Guiana
13 km from the coast of French Guiana is devil’s island with an area of 14 hectares. In 1852-1952 years he served as a prison for dangerous criminals and went down in history as one of the most notorious forced-labour prisons in history. The prison was located on two neighboring Islands of the archipelago of the Iles du Salut.
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Among murderers and thieves are kept and political prisoners. Most of the 80 thousand prisoners died on the island. One of the prisoners was unjustly accused in France, the artillery captain of Jewish origin, Alfred Dreyfus. In our time, devil’s island is annually visited by more than 50 thousand tourists.
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Fire Island, Russia
The famous Vologda penny — one of the seven correctional colonies of special regime for life-sentenced prisoners in Russia. Today, in IK-5 contains almost 200 prisoners. They are all guilty of the deaths of at least two people.
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The colony is located in the former Kirillo-Novoezersk monastery, founded in 1517. After 1917 the monastery was turned into a prison for “enemies of the revolution”. Later there was a prison for political prisoners in the Gulag system. In the 1950s the camp was reorganized into prison.
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