PENALCOLONY

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.

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penal colony

Noun

  1. A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
    Entire countries started as penal colonies, such as French Guyana.


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