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penal colony
noun as in penal institution
Example Sentences
Krivov was sentenced to serve four years at a general regime penal colony for his fight for freedom and human rights.
The Corporation would virtuously disown him and leave him to face a ten-year rap in Penal Colony.
In 1852 the French Government established a penal colony on these islands.
A penal colony is one formed of convicts sent out from the mother country.
From Fredericks-Oort they went on to Ommershaus, where is the poor-house and penal colony belonging to the former institution.
Redpath passed away into the outer darkness of a penal colony, where he was still living a year or two back.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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