penal colony
Noun
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Noun
penal colony
- A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
- Entire countries started as penal colonies, such as French Guyana.
- German: Strafkolonie
- Russian: исправительный
- Spanish: colonia penal
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