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Categories: Settlement schemes, Penal labour, Imprisonment and detention, Former penal colonies, All articles containing potentially dated statements

penal colony convict settlement Criminal colony exile colony Penal colonialism

A penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible) WordNet 3.0

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A penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. Wikipedia

A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce. Wiktionary

Colonial territory. Wiktionary (translation)

Entire countries started as penal colonies, such as French Guyana. Wiktionary

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corrective labor colony

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