In 2016, I visited the beautiful country of Guyana, for what would turn out to be the first of seven visits over the next six years. I am an historian of empire and punishment, and in previous months, when I was writing a European Research Council supported global history of convicts and penal colonies, I had become interested in a place called Mazaruni. I had discovered a whole host of records including plans and colonial enquiries in The National Archives at Kew. Once a remote penal settlement in what had been the colony of British Guiana, Mazaruni is now part of the Guyana Prison Service’s prison estate. By coincidence, at this time and through participation in a British Academy supported network on crime in the Caribbean, based at Leicester, I had met a lecturer from the University of Guyana. Dr Mellissa Ifill, quite by chance, also sat on the Prison Service’s Sentence Management Board… Read more at : https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/history-of-prisons-in-guyana