penal colony

penal colony. A remote place of detention for convicts and political prisoners, usu. in an isolated part of a nation or in a nation’s extraterritorial holdings. • Historical examples include the Soviet Union’s gulags in Siberia and France’s penal colony on Devil’s Island off the coast of Guiana.

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词条贡献者

双语律师Simon，毕业于亚洲一流的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译涉及金属和矿业领域的法律文件。