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penal

adjective as in disciplinary

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Naidu and Lynch are not the first activists from Just Stop Oil to go through the British penal system.

From Salon

He died in February in a brutal penal colony in the Arctic Circle.

From BBC

A man who was detained in Russia after his daughter drew an anti-war picture - in a case that generated global headlines - has been released from a penal colony.

From BBC

A court in Moscow has sentenced a French researcher to three years in a penal colony for breaking Russia's controversial law on registering as a "foreign agent".

From BBC

He said the government should consider launching a public inquiry into the penal system.

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

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