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Penal colony

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  1. 1
    A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.

    "Australia was used as a penal colony by the United Kingdom in the 18th to 19th century."

  2. 2
    a penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible) wordnet

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