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    A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location...
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    "In the Penal Colony" ("In der Strafkolonie") (also translated as "In the Penal Settlement") is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October...
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  • The Penal Colony may refer to: The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka The Penal Colony...
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    Davao Prison and Penal Farm, formerly the Davao Penal Colony (DaPeCol), is a medium security prison located in Panabo City, Davao del Norte, Philippines...
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    2024, four prison inmates attacked the guards of the IK-19 Surovikino penal colony in Surovikino, in Volgograd Oblast of southern Russia and took hostages...
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    Wright authorized the establishment of a penal colony in the province of Palawan on November 16, 1904. This penal settlement, which originally comprised...
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    Mettray Penal Colony, situated in the small village of Mettray, in the French département of Indre-et-Loire, just north of the city of Tours, was a private...
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    Federal Governmental Institution — Penal Colony No. 6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Orenburg Oblast, commonly known as the Black Dolphin...
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    undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination. While...
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    Devil's Island (category Former penal colonies)
    The penal colony of Cayenne (French: Bagne de Cayenne), commonly known as Devil's Island (Île du Diable), was a French penal colony that operated for...
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    Ross Island Penal Colony was a convict settlement that was established in 1858 in the remote Andaman Islands by the British colonial government in India...
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  • to penal colony in Russia's Mordovia region". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-11-19. Maynes, Charles (2022-11-17). "Russia sends Brittney Griner to a penal colony"...
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    The penal colony of New Caledonia was a penitentiary establishment which was in operation from 1864 to 1924. Many French prisoners from mainland France...
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  • The Penal Colony (Spanish: La colonia penal) is a 1970 Chilean drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It is based on Franz Kafka's 1919 short story, "In the...
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  • Kachanivska penal colony (Ukrainian: Качанівська жіноча колонія №54, translated: "Kachanivska female colony number 54"), is a minimum security prison...
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    controversial French penal colony located in French Guiana for 101 years, from 1852 to 1953. Although it was the smallest part of the penal colony, it is notorious...
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  • IK stands for Corrective Colony (исправительная колония, ispravitelnaya koloniya) "UK sanctions heads of Arctic penal colony where Alexei Navalny was...
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  • Penal Colony were an electro-industrial outfit based in the Inland Empire section of Southern California, and fronted by Dee Madden. The original incarnation...
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    in penal labor, which is in the form of work brigades in colony production zones where prisoners earn a wage of which most is paid to the colony for...
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    their sentences and were not released until 1953. At the French Guiana penal colony, doubling the sentence meant that all convicts had to stay on after serving...
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    IK-2 prison colony where inmates 'disappear'". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 March 2021. "Navalny arrives at Russian penal colony". The West Australian...
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    The Moreton Bay Penal Settlement operated from 1825 to 1842. It became the city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The Moreton Bay Penal Settlement was...
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    established a settlement in 1803 before it became a separate colony in 1825. Its penal colonies became notorious destinations for the transportation...
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  • who was falsely imprisoned in 1933 in the notorious Devil's Island penal colony and escaped in 1941 with the help of another convict, counterfeiter Louis...
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    replaced the death penalty with exile, and Kahoʻolawe became a men's penal colony sometime around 1830. Food and water were scarce, some prisoners reportedly...
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  • leper colony in South America, known for his appearance in the novel Papillon. The novel recounts the escape of Henri Charrière from the French penal colony...
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    swamp that seemed to have been the source of many of the old colony's problems. The penal colony was originally on Viper Island. The convicts, mostly political...
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    Phillip founded the first British settlement in Australian history as a penal colony. Having set sail on 13 May 1787, Captain Arthur Phillip assumed the role...
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    The Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony is an Italian prison farm located on the island of Gorgona in the Tuscan Archipelago. The island has a long history...
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    arrest, recapture and trial led to his transportation to the Australian penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania). He is widely regarded as...
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