penal colony

noun

: a place where prisoners are sent to live

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Inside the church, Charles and Camilla signed two bibles, including one that belonged to Australia’s first minister and chaplain of the First Fleet of ships that took convicts from Britain to the penal colony of Australia in 1788. Reuters, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024 Now, he was being held in a Siberian penal colony where the conditions were likely worse than the others. Sara Ganim, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024 Whelan, a businessman who has been detained since visiting Russia for a friend’s wedding in 2018, was also convicted of espionage and had been serving a 16-year sentence in a penal colony. Carol E. Lee, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024 August 4th Nineteen years in a maximum-security penal colony. Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for penal colony 

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“Penal colony.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penal%20colony. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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