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A penal colony is a colony used to house prisoners. The British Empire's use of parts of Australia provides a classic example.Prisoners were sent far away to discourage escape (or even return after sentence-expiry), and to places otherwise inhospitable where their (unpaid) labour can rebound to the metropole 's advantage before later bulk "free" immigration becomes viable. In this way, the British got rid of criminals and prostitutes by shipping them to North America as indentured labour. When that avenue closed in the 1780s after the American Revolution, Britain switched the destination to what later became parts of Australia: Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. Awkward advocates of Irish Home Rule or of Trade Unionism (the Tolpuddle Martyrs) received sentenceIn law a sentence forms the final act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function. The sentence generally involves a decree of imprisonment, a fine and/or other punishments against a defendant convicted of a cris of transportationIn law and in history, particularly with reference to the history of Australia, the word transportation can refer to deporting convicted criminals to a penal colony. A sentence of transportation could apply for "life" or for a specific period of time. and joined the thieves and embezzlers and prostitutes in remote Australian colonies.
France elected to send serious criminals to uncomfortable tropical penal colonies: Devil's IslandDevil's Island ( French le du Diable , is an island located off the coast of French Guiana. It was a notorious French penal colony until 1946. Devil's Island is a small rocky islet in the Atlantic Ocean just off the northern coast of French Guiana whose n in French GuianaGuiana or French Guiana (French Guyane or Guyane francaise is an overseas departement departement d'outre-mer, or DOM of France, located on the Caribbean coast of South America. Guyane Region Guyane Official language French Political statusNon- sovereign, received forgers and other criminals; for a time New CaledoniaNew Caledonia ( French: Nouvelle-Caledonie is a territory of 18,575 kmē (7,172 sq. miles) made up of a main island and several smaller islands, in the southwest Pacific. Population in 2004 is in between 250,000 and 300,000 inhabitants. Name The name deriv received dissidents like the CommunardThe Communards were also an '80's Britpop group Communard is an archaic term that is a synonym of " communist". With respect to the history of France, the Communards were the supporters/members of the short-lived Paris Commune formed in the disturbed peris.
Both Imperial RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With and the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 used Siberia as a dumping-ground penal colony for both criminals and dissidents. Though geographically contiguous with heartland Russia, Siberia provided both remoteness and an unwelcomingly harsh climate. Alongside the popular image of Siberian saltmines, the Gulag and its predecessors developed forestry and construction enterprises.
The idea of remote and inhospitable prison planets has also understandably appealed to science fiction writers.
Some of the most famous examples include Salusa Secundus in Frank Herbert's Dune, and the penal colony in Alien 3, though many more exist.
The Penal Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka.
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