penal colony

noun

: a place where prisoners are sent to live

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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 He was sentenced in July to 16 years in a high-security penal colony, becoming the first U.S. journalist to be convicted for espionage since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Aug. 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 7 Nov. 2024.

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