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"penal colony" Definitions
  1. a place where prisoners are sent to live

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He was reportedly sentenced to 22 years in a penal colony.
You're moved to a penal colony where you have to work.
She's caught, of course, and is sentenced to an Australian penal colony.
When the notorious New York penal colony closes, few will miss it.
He spent much of the next decade in a Siberian penal colony.
The Dickensons arrived in America through Georgia when it was a penal colony.
The court hearing on his early release petition was held at the penal colony.
Today, they write about the Soviet Union being one big penal colony, a communist ghetto.
The former penal colony is home to spiders, bigger spiders, Tony Abbott, and Baz Lurhmann's filmmaking.
Mr. Titiev was sentenced in March to four years in a penal colony for marijuana possession.
Around 1,400 people arrived, half of them convicts, transported from England to establish a penal colony.
Beer makes it clear that Russia's modernization also contributed to Siberia's failure as a penal colony.
The one viable alternative is to create a larger, remote, offshore penal colony for these ISIS terrorists.
He was stripped of his party membership and sent to a penal colony near the Soviet border.
At worst, it was a penal colony filled with a bunch of bastards, thieves, and rapists fighting grumpkins.
You happen to do something bad enough that you're thrown into a remote, Potemkin-village-style jail / penal colony.
The French claimed it in the 17th century, using it as a slave port and later a penal colony.
Mr. Ulyukayev, who is serving an eight-year sentence in a penal colony, says the charge was trumped up.
Mr. Artimovich said he decided to take his chances at trial, and served a year in a penal colony.
If convicted, Mr. Calvey faces up to 10 years in the often violent penal colony system, known as "the zone."
That's the day when we had our continent taken off us and it was declared a penal colony of England.
In the story by Franz Kafka, "In the Penal Colony," an officer was standing next to a lethal punishing machine.
Over time, the sprawling penal colony grew to meet demand, housing more inmates as the city arrested more of its citizens.
One tableau features a gaunt and sooty man shoveling coal in what looks like the boiler room of a penal colony.
It marks the day when, in 1788, the Union Jack was hoisted at Sydney Cove to establish a British penal colony.
Also released was Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker who had been serving a 20-year sentence in an Arctic penal colony.
This was the date in 1788 when the Union Flag was hoisted at Sydney Cove to establish a British penal colony.
With its sandstone streetscapes, penal-colony history and moody, damp weather, Hobart feels like a town with plenty of secrets to divulge.
The 1966 novel by Robert Heinlein takes place in the 2070s, on the moon, which, in this future, hosts a subterranean penal colony.
The penal colony has become such a blemish on the citywide collective consciousness, they argue, that it's not worth the cost, or upkeep.
Other indigenous tribes were wiped out when the British turned the Andaman and Nicobar Islands into a penal colony in the nineteenth century.
That they survive a plane crash in the Peruvian jungle, then escape a penal colony, only sets the stage for their real troubles.
A former slave and penal colony, it was designated as an overseas department in 1946, giving it the same political status as mainland departments.
His first government posting came as a disappointment: the Andaman Islands, an archipelago so remote that the British used it as a penal colony.
Giyas Ibragimov, who was sentenced to years in prison for graffiting a statue, claimed that he was beaten at the Baku Penal Colony No. 2.
We'd tried everything: nation-building, nation-destroying, sending terrorists and their families to the Mars penal colony, sending the insurgent Young Siberians to actual Siberia.
"In some cases, they refer to the country's early history as Britain's offshore prison," it added, referring to Australia's past as a British penal colony.
Ripley crash lands on a penal colony in the third "Alien" film, and ultimately sacrifices herself to save humankind at the end of the film. 
That's why Northmen saw service in the Night's Watch as honorable, whereas the rest of the realm perceived it to be like a penal colony.
And there are subtle hints at life inside the zone, the Russian penal colony system, such as a checkerboard drawn on a table with spilled sugar.
His lawyer has previously objected to his incarceration in a penal colony above the Arctic Circle, saying the extreme cold had given Mr. Sentsov health problems.
Since the 103s, Rikers has served as a de facto penal colony, isolating inmates and officers alike from the outside world, to the detriment of all.
He was arrested by the apartheid government in 1963 and was sentenced to 10 years on Robben Island, the penal colony that also then held Mandela.
In the future, a corporation housed in a huge complex in the sky looks down upon a desolate world that is home to a penal colony.
Based on the real life of Mary Bryant, the notorious 18th-century runaway from an Australian penal colony, Keneally's debut novel is a tragedy of epic proportions.
"Banished" is set within an Australian penal colony in the 1780s, where floggings abound and guards and convicts alike are permanently coated in a layer of schmutz.
The government's planned immigration cut is a potential turning point for a nation that has been shaped by newcomers since its days as a British penal colony.
French Guiana, which has a population of around 250,000, was settled by the French in the 17th century, becoming a slave colony and then a penal colony.
A few months into her sentence, she took the abusive guards to court and won the first case against prison guards in the history of her penal colony.
She once presented a copy of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," which features a monstrous tattooing torture machine, to the tattooed Jack Dracula, one of her sideshow subjects.
I had one book—it was on penal colony law, I read it chapter by chapter, because all of the guards and bosses said I was breaking the law.
Down Under gets its very own chapter on its liquor-addled origins as a penal colony, when rum was currency and even inspired a military coup, the Rum Rebellion.
The email predicted that the suspect would not talk and described him as a Russian contract killer who had done time in a penal colony identified as IK-11.
Mr. Pavlov declined to identify his client or elaborate on the reason for the indictment for "betraying the state," punishable by up to 20 years in a penal colony.
This year's production, at the Nottingham Playhouse, is "Our Country's Good" by Timberlake Wertenbaker, about a group of convicts rehearsing a play in the newly established penal colony of Australia.
Originally settled by Aboriginals 40,000 years ago, it became notorious when a British penal colony was established in 1803; eventually, almost half of Australia-bound English convicts were sent there.
The stakes of Utopia Falls are much more subtle: New Babyl is peaceful, its citizens (besides those in the quasi-penal colony, Reform Sector) are equal, no one goes hungry.
Used as a penal colony by the British Raj, the island chain was occupied by Japan for three years during World War II, a period that older islanders recall with dread.
But in October, a Russian court sentenced Ms. Issachar to seven and a half years in prison on drug possession and smuggling charges, and she was sent to a penal colony.
Arrested by the apartheid government in 1963, he was sentenced to 10 years on Robben Island, the windswept penal colony that also then housed the country's first black president, Nelson Mandela.
"In the Penal Colony" and "Waiting for the Barbarians" can be safely categorized as only for completists; "Appomattox," premiered in 2007 and later revised, has streaks of inspiration, but can drag.
The Russian authorities accused Mr. Whelan, who had served as a Marine in Iraq, of spying, a charge that can carry a sentence of 10 to 20 years in a penal colony.
But also lost will be a garden sanctuary in the nation's largest penal colony that has a remarkable track record for keeping inmates who have worked the soil there out of prison.
The return address was IK-11, a penal colony in the Russian town of Bor that is said to be reserved for former law enforcement and intelligence officers convicted of serious crimes.
Sydney City Council has referred the issue, along with a second statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the administrator who turned the British penal colony into a free settlement, to an indigenous advisory board.
Unlike the monstrously abusive penal colony so powerfully portrayed in Varlam Shalamov's "Kolyma Tales," and despite the unforgiving climate, their settlement shows signs of growing into the equivalent of a functioning collective farm.
From the upper deck of the ferry, mist cooling our faces on the hot day, we headed east, past Fort Denison, a former penal colony, and had fantastic views of the harbor and skyline.
The Crimea-born Sentsov, sentenced by a Russian court to 20 years in a high security penal colony in 2015 for "terrorist attacks" on the peninsula, is on the 88th day of a hunger strike.
"Isle of Dogs" takes off as Atari searches for Spots, a heroic quest that leads him to a canine penal colony, a wasteland where mysteriously sick dogs fight over morsels gleaned from rancid, maggoty garbage.
On Monday, a trial court in Moscow sentenced him to three and a half years in a penal colony for assaulting a police officer during his arrest at a recent protest rally in central Moscow.
Even in the absence of physical or sexual abuse, a single visit to the penal colony of Rikers Island can involve an entire day, with multiple searches, including canines, and even removal of infant diapers.
"We all know that the English didn't send the smartest guy halfway around the world to create a penal colony that Captain Cook found 50 years earlier ... it's ripe for comedy," producer Jason Byrne told Mashable.
But the fantasy of perpetual economic growth by carceral means was even darker: an ever-expanding penal colony in the southern mountains, where the rural casualties of deindustrialization are put to work imprisoning the urban poor.
Distilling had virtually disappeared on the island for more than 313 years because of a succession of restrictive laws, the first a statute passed in the early 231s during the penal colony days, outlawing all distilleries.
ARGUN, Russia (Reuters) - Chechen human rights advocate Oyub Titiev was granted early release by a Russian court on Monday after being given a four-year penal colony sentence earlier this year, his lawyer and supporters said.
Arthur Phillip and his First Fleet had arrived in Botany Bay in 21881 to establish a penal colony, and in the 21897 years of British colonial rule that followed, the country was divided into six independent colonies.
MOSCOW — A Russian court on Monday sentenced a Muslim human rights activist to four years in a penal colony on drug possession charges widely seen as manufactured to further a crackdown on dissent in the Chechnya region.
Oyub Titiev, 61, an activist who worked for an organization investigating accusations of human rights abuse in Chechnya, was sentenced in March to four years in a penal colony on drug possession charges widely seen as manufactured.
When the Discovery bridge crew narrows the search down to three possible locations for Lorca, one of the three listed is Rura Penthe, the penal colony that Kirk and McCoy were sent to in "The Undiscovered Country."
The hundred and thirty-one short essays that make up this provocative history of France cover a striking array of topics: the Chauvet cave paintings, the transformation of French Guiana into a penal colony, Chanel No. 5.
Sergei Mikhailov, a former deputy director of the computer crimes unit of the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency to the K.G.B., was sentenced to 22 years in a penal colony on two counts of treason.
The case is being watched closely in Israel after an Israeli woman was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in a Russian penal colony after police found nine grams of cannabis in her luggage at the Moscow Airport.
It's a way station for those awaiting trial, a penal colony for the poor and the criminal, the unlucky and the fucked, a void of misery that it's hard to believe sits in the middle of America's richest metropolis.
It's the federal monitor's third damning report since 2015, when New York City signed a consent decree with the Department of Justice to take steps to curb violence at Rikers, a 10,000-inmate penal colony on the East River.
When asked about Mayor de Blasio's position on closing the penal colony, a city hall spokesperson pointed me to a column de Blasio wrote in the Staten Island Advance last April, in which he outlined his administration's reform efforts so far.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pardoned a 46-year old woman who was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for sending a text message to a Georgian acquaintance about the movement of Russian military equipment.
For viewers familiar with Franz Kafka's story "In the Penal Colony," the calligraphy on Mr. Scheuer's skin may recall the sentences, etched by torture machinery, on a condemned prisoner's body during the 12 hours it takes for him to die.
This book gathers 14 of them, including "In the Penal Colony" and "A Hunger Artist," placing the work in a contemporary setting so that Kafka, that master critic of the modern world, can comment on issues like civil rights and homelessness.
Bigger picture: The skepticism toward immigration is a sharp turning point for a country that has been shaped by newcomers since its days as a British penal colony and runs in tandem with a backlash against immigrants around the world.
MOSCOW — After a two-day trial conducted behind closed doors, the Moscow City Court on Thursday sentenced Vladimir Anikeyev, the head of a hacking group that the authorities cracked down on last winter, to two years in a penal colony.
When the Women's House closed in 1971, the inmates were quietly moved to the then newly finished Correctional Institution for Women on Rikers, which was immediately assailed by opponents as "a huge penal colony" that would only further isolate and endanger women prisoners.
Having just beaten one of them Saturday night, Jung needs a fight with Cub Swanson, a fellow WEC transplant who fights like the loser is bound for a penal colony on an island made of garbage in the middle of the ocean.
Arrests in such disputes are so common that today about one of every 10 prisoners in Russia's penal colony system, the network of razor-wire and barrack camps that is the successor to the gulag, is serving time for an economic crime.
Described as "arguably the most enigmatic people on our planet," by Norwegian geneticist Erika Hagelberg, the wider group of Andaman Islanders, which comprises several distinct tribal groups, was largely isolated until the island chain was turned into a British penal colony in the 19th century.
VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Jennifer Kent, who made her name with horror "The Babadook", returned on Thursday with a revenge thriller set in 1825 Tasmania, a penal colony where the abuse meted out to convicts is surpassed only by the cruelty suffered by the Aborigines.
MOSCOW — The European Parliament on Thursday awarded a prestigious human rights prize to a Ukrainian prisoner serving a 20-year term in a penal colony in Siberia, drawing renewed attention to political detainees in the far-flung prison system once known as the gulag.
Russia's deputy justice minister, Mikhail Galperin, told the United Nations Committee Against Torture on Thursday that Russian authorities had arrested five prison guards who are suspected of torturing a prisoner in a penal colony northeast of Moscow in June 2017, and dismissed 17 officials.
Set in the 19th century, when Britain administered its penal-colony system in Australia, it stars Aisling Franciosi as an Irish convict who, having been violently wronged by the lieutenant (Sam Claflin) responsible for her release, seeks vengeance, aided by an aboriginal tracker (Baykali Ganambarr).
PAPILLON In another adaptation of the Henri Charrière novel "Papillon" — perhaps the best-known take is the 1973 version starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman — Charlie Hunnam steps in for McQueen and Rami Malek has the Hoffman role as allies at a penal colony.
He faces up to 10 years in a penal colony on charges of soliciting a $2 million bribe to approve a major oil deal sought by the state oil giant Rosneft, run by Igor I. Sechin, a Putin ally and former military intelligence agent.
In recent years, a number of high-profile figures have been charged and sentenced for possession or distribution including Chechen human rights activist Oyub Titiev, who earlier this year was sentenced to four years in a penal colony after authorities claimed to find marijuana in his car.
The action, he said, was inspired by an established, if extreme, form of protest in the Russian penal colony system in which an inmate nails his scrotum to a bunk bed or the wooden planks of a barracks floor to protest the actions of prison guards.
They cited the case of the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was arrested in May 2014 on charges of "plotting terrorist acts," taken to Lefortovo Prison in Moscow and, after his trial and conviction in August 2015, sent to a high-security penal colony in Siberia.
Judge Semenova sentenced Mr. Ulyukayev, who had been locked in a struggle with Igor I. Sechin, the director of the state oil company Rosneft, over how to revive the swooning Russian economy, to eight years in a penal colony and a fine of 130 million rubles, or $2.2 million.
That's a good reason to raise the case of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month in a remote Siberian penal colony, to remind the Russian president that his costly sport show does not wipe away his government's crimes.
The government's plan, which had been in the works for months, is a potential turning point for a nation that has been shaped by newcomers since its days as a British penal colony and that has presented itself in recent years as a model of how immigration, properly managed, can strengthen a country.
But it's the pairing of Timberlake Wertenbaker's "Our Country's Good," about prisoners in a penal colony in Australia putting on a production of George Farquhar's comedy "The Recruiting Officer," along with a full production of the Farquhar play employing the same cast, that has me searching Expedia for flights to Spring Green. americanplayers.
Among the images here are a saintly 613 oil-on-canvas portrait by Ms. Fini of her friend Jean Genet, the convicted thief turned author and gay icon, as well as 261 illustrations for Mr. Genet's "The Galley," an epic poem about life on a ship headed to a French penal colony.
The Treasury named Sergey Leonidovich Kossiev as being responsible for extrajudicial killings and torture as head of a penal colony in the Republic of Karelia and the fifth person, Ruslan Geremeyev, was accused of acting on behalf of the head of Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, in a matter relating to extrajudicial killings and torture.
The heroes of Australian folklore are all men — from the convicts who first settled the country when Britain established it as a penal colony to the miners who worked the gold fields in the late 1800s to the soldiers who fought in World War I and distinguished themselves through their grit and courage at Gallipoli.
Before you talk about Australia, it's important to first reflect on what it fundamentally is, in the simplest terms: a massive Western country colonized by the British, the original home of an indigenous people later utilized as a penal colony, a 7.692 million-square-kilometer island sat smack dab in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Late last year, Triple J, the country's "youth" music station, announced it was shifting the date of its annual music countdown, the Hottest 100, from January 53 because of continued controversy over Australia Day, which commemorates arrival of the First Fleet arriving in Sydney to establish the penal colony that would become the foundation of modern Australia.
While some may argue that exercise is, in fact, not a choice but, as Mark Greif writes in his seminal n + 1 essay "Against Exercise," a Kafkaesque penal colony, an "emissary from the realm of biological processes" that forces you to "acknowledge the machine operating inside yourself," many others throughout history have simply drunk the protein-enriched Kool-Aid: Working out usually feels pretty good.

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