Usually means: Settlement for punishment and reform.
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  1. penal colony: Merriam-Webster
  2. penal colony: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. penal colony: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  7. Penal Colony (band), Penal Colony, Penal colony, The Penal Colony (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (penal colony)

noun:  A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.

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