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penal colony
noun as in penal institution
Example Sentences
He died in February in a brutal penal colony in the Arctic Circle.
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.
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".
He has now been sentenced to 6 years and 10 months imprisonment in a penal colony.
Ten months after Kevin's arrest, at the end of December 2023, he was found guilty of treason and sentenced to four years in a penal colony.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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