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, often an island or distant colonial territory.

Penal colony, distant or overseas settlement established for punishing criminals by forced labour and isolation from society. Although a score of nations in Europe and Latin America transported their criminals to widely scattered penal colonies, such …

2021年8月23日 · From 1852 to 1953, the inmates of France’s infamous Devil’s Island penal colony in the Caribbean died en masse from malnutrition, disease, and futile escape attempts.

What was a 'penal colony'? Penal colonies were settlements specifically established by colonial powers to exile prisoners and enforce punishment through forced labor. These colonies existed primarily to alleviate overpopulated jails in the home country.

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 100 years, from 1852 to 1952, and officially closed in 1953, in the Salvation Islands of French Guiana.

A penal colony is a settlement used to hold prisoners and use them for working in part of the state's (usually colonial) territories. This is much bigger than a prison farm. A famous penal colony was Devil's Island in French Guiana. The British Empire used its colonies in North America as penal colonies for more

2021年12月17日 · The idea of penal colonies was often to break the spirit of criminals, subjecting them to harsh conditions and brutal forced labour. In some cases, the labour they undertook was part of public works projects and actually useful, but in many cases, it was simply designed to keep them busy.

A penal colony was a colonial community, often established in an underdeveloped part of a state’s territory, to detain societal prisoners. Prisoners were generally used for punitive labor on a far larger scale than general prison farms.

2024年10月21日 · Backed by Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the crime thriller is set in 1920s Singapore and follows a rookie detective investigating a murder on …

2025年1月4日 · A penal colony was a territory or settlement that was established by a government or empire as a place to punish and discipline criminals, often sending them from the mainland to remote or inhospitable areas.