A penal colony refers to a place where prisoners are sent to live and work as a form of punishment for their crimes. It is a designated area where convicted individuals are restricted and kept separate from the rest of society. Full definition
Charlie Hunnam (The Lost City of Z) and Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) take on the roles previously played by Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, in this new screen adaptation of Henri Charrière's memoir of his imprisonment and repeated escapes from the notorious penal colony of Devil's Island. (weliveentertainment.com)
Is America less sinful today than in 1853 when John Morrissey, a saloon brawler and political headbreaker out of Troy, N.Y., fought Yankee Sullivan, lammister from the Australian penal colony in Botany Bay? (si.com)
James, who called Rikers Island a «penal colony for the poor,» recommended there be a museum on the island dedicated to telling future generations about the mistakes of the past, and she suggested renaming the island after Kalief Browder, the Bronx man whose incarceration as a teen on Rikers Island and eventual suicide have become a symbol for the complex's brutal disfunction. (dnainfo.com)