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Wikipedia: A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by locating them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. Although the term can be used to refer to a correctional facility located in a remote location it is more commonly used to refer to communities of prisoners overseen by wardens or governors having absolute authority. Historically penal colonies have often been used for penal labour in an economically underdeveloped part of a state's (usually colonial) territories, and on a far larger scale than a prison farm.
![[Epigraphy in honor of a prisoner in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mernagh_monument_s.jpg "Epigraphy in honor of a prisoner in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay")
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