penal colonies
Remote prisoner outposts
Penal colonies were remote settlements where governments sent convicted criminals to serve their sentences through forced labor.
Britain transported prisoners to Australia, France to Devil's Island, Russia to Siberia.
The practice isolated dangerous or politically inconvenient populations while extracting labor for colonial development.
The penal colony at Botany Bay received its first convicts in 1788.
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- Botany BayNew South Wales inlet
- Norfolk IslandAustralian external territory, Pacific
- AustraliaSouthern Hemisphere continent-country
- gulagForced labor prison system
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Municipalities limiting immigration enforcement cooperation
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