PENAL COLONY

By SovConn | October 13, 2013

penal colony. A remote place of detention for convicts and political prisoners, usu. in an isolated part of a nation or in a nation’s extraterritorial holdings. • Historical examples include the Soviet Union’s gulags in Siberia and France’s penal colony on Devil’s Island off the coast of Guiana.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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