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penal colony

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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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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to penal colony, such as: brig, concentration camp, dungeon, house of detention, jail, and labor camp.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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