penal colony
Noun
Meaning
a penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible)
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`Abdu'l-Bahá soon became very popular in the penal colony and Myron Henry Phelps a wealthy New York lawyer described how "a crowd of human beings.
As early as 1858 this island was used as a British penal colony for political prisoners facing life imprisonment.
Meanwhile, Nadouev, labeled the “Godfather of Stavropol” by the city’s press, is a fugitive, having reportedly avoided serving a 25-year sentence in a Russian penal colony for arms trafficking and ordering the murders of business associates.
In Thomas’ sci-fi novel, a dying renegade returns to Earth from a Mars penal colony to connect with his secret ward—a young man undergoing cyberenhancements to take his place in tomorrow’s elite.
The Doctor remains silent when the guards process and interrogate the three of them, but when they are about to be transported to a penal colony, the Doctor gives the word.
Thirty-four Nova Scotians were banished and sent to either the Sherbro or a penal colony at Gore.