penal colony
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Hubbard, a former teacher originally from Michigan, was sentenced to almost seven years in a penal colony in 2024.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The setup implies that Carrie—intellectually curious, a clandestine book reader, a guileless innocent for whom Ms. Howell makes us ache—is being liberated from Margaret’s fundamentalist penal colony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He was transferred to a less harsh penal colony in Russia's Udmurtia region in 2024.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Despite the many Aboriginal communities, the British deemed the place terra nullius—no one’s land—and established a penal colony, bringing diseases that drastically reduced the indigenous population.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
He was one generation removed from a slave ship, living in a country best described as an African penal colony, and he was a free man, with every benefit of education.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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