NOUN
- a penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible)
How To Use penal colony In A Sentence
- The media have conferred on him the image of the victimised rebel, who was transported to a penal colony as the price of his principled insubordination.
- It's the often time-capsuled world of the back office, sometimes referred to as "Australia" because of the parallels to a penal colony to which people in other departments who misbehave are sent. WallStreetAndTech - All Stories
- This was especially so in a penal colony where many of the convicts were hardened criminals and many of the free settlers were themselves ex-convicts and impulsive men.
- But his family said he agreed to effectively be forced in to exile rather than face another four and half years in the "harsh regime" penal colony at Kholmogory near Arkhangelsk. 'Spy swap' under way as 10 plead guilty in US court
- For example, Pope Silverius was deposed by force and died in a penal colony.
- his deportation to a penal colony
- Human-rights groups frequently reported on the harsh conditions of the penal colony, including incidents of torture and murder.
- The area was settled in 1824 as a penal colony. Population, 734,750.
- You play Ripley, who has to despatch hordes of alien-infested humans from an underground penal colony.
- Two are in a penal colony. Times, Sunday Times