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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.
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.
[further explanation needed] Such colonies combine penal detention with compulsory work (penal labor). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The system of labor colonies and camps originated in 1929, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and after 1953, the corrective penal colonies in the Soviet Union developed as a post- Stalin replacement of the Gulag labor camp system.
What are conditions like in a Russian penal colony? Conditions in Russian penal colonies “varied but were often harsh and life threatening,” the U.S. State Department said in a 2021 report ...
Andrei Pivovarov, an opposition figure sentenced last year to four years in prison, has been in isolation at Penal Colony No. 7 in northern Russia’s Karelia region since January and is likely to ...
Several prisoners in a Russian maximum security penal colony have seized employees of the colony, Russian state news agency TASS reported Friday.
FKU [nb 1] Corrective Colony No. 2 of the UFSIN of Russia for Vladimir Oblast (Russian: ФКУ Исправительная колония № 2 УФСИН России по Владимирской области, romanized: FKU Ispravitel'naya koloniya № 2 UFSIN Rossii po Vladimirskoy oblasti), [1] also known simply as IK-2 Pokrov or Pokrov correctional colony, is a general regime ...
The penal colony of New Caledonia was a penitentiary establishment which was in operation from 1864 to 1924. Many French prisoners from mainland France (approximately 21,000) were deported there. Divided into three categories, these convicts could hope to be released without obtaining a return to mainland France.