Remote settlement used to house convicts from the general population.
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Examples for "penal colony "
Examples for "penal colony "
1 He said the men would serve their sentences in a penal colony .
2 But the penal colony struggled to survive as food supplies quickly dwindled.
3 Overview: You're building a fortress on a remote island, a penal colony .
4 In 1852 the French Government established a penal colony on these islands.
5 But the day has gone by for successful re-establishment of a penal colony .
1 The 25th were sent to Spike Island, a convict settlement near Queenstown, Ireland.
2 Create convict settlement for innocent people, now we'll be a leper colony, he texted.
3 Both much depressed to-night; the atmosphere of this camp is like a convict settlement .
4 Angola, however, has latterly been adopted as the principal convict settlement of the Portuguese.
5 A bell began to toll in the convict settlement .
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