Definitions for penal colony
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1. penal colonynoun

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

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1. penal colonynoun

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

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1. penal colony

   A penal colony is a settlement established in a remote location, typically an island or distant colonial territory, where convicts are exiled as punishment. Instead of being imprisoned, convicts in a penal colony are often required to work and build the infrastructure of the colony itself. It was a type of punishment frequently used by the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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1. Penal colony

   A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. Although the term can be used to refer to a correctional facility located in a remote location it is more commonly used to refer to communities of prisoners overseen by wardens or governors having absolute authority. Historically penal colonies have often been used for penal labour in an economically underdeveloped part of a state's territories, and on a far larger scale than a prison farm. In practice such penal colonies may be little more than slave communities. The British, French, and other colonial empires heavily used North America and other parts of the world as penal colonies to varying degrees, sometimes under the guise of indentured servitude or similar arrangements.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of penal colony in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of penal colony in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of penal colony in a Sentence

1. Rogelio Zedillo:

   I think its a pity that they have closed what could have been a model prison, they were self-supporting, they (inmates) were producing. They grew vegetables. They had cattle, goats, pigs. There was a fish farm and a salt works ... the problem was political, the authorities decided not to continue as a penal colony, and so little by little it fell apart.

2. Anna Veduta:

   Even if the reports about Navalny being transferred to the Melekhovo Penal Colony are true, it is hardly a relief. This colony is known to be one of the toughest and most torturous in Russia, before Navalny’s appeal to a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security prison was upheld, there were already rumors he would be transferred to this colony.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=penal colony
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Penal_Colony
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=penal colony