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What is a penal colony?

What is a penal colony? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
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And even in Gaelic tales, the island earned fame for being the penal colony where clan chiefs put their enemies in exile.
The 600 forced labourers of the penal colony at Brest, condemned to forced labour for life, were encouraged to work by the promise of a pardon.
He was sentenced to two years in a strict-regime penal colony on 30 May 1999 and was not allowed to appeal his sentence.
Uzbek Government had no objection to members of the Committee visiting that penal colony if they so wished.
On an interstellar penal colony, a group of criminal aliens steal a spaceship and chart a course for Earth.
In January 2002, the prisoners escaped from the high-security Novo Ulyanovsk penal colony.

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