Examples of 'penal settlement' in a sentence

Meaning of "penal settlement"

This phrase refers to a place or location, often in the context of historical or colonial times, where convicted criminals or prisoners were sent to serve their sentences. It denotes a designated area or establishment where punitive measures and rehabilitation programs were implemented for convicted individuals

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A penal settlement for crimes of every type.
Would be the last to wish for a penal settlement.
It was the only penal settlement to be so designed.
Ross Island functioned as the headquarters of the penal settlement.
That you have been in a penal settlement where you have been undergoing punishments.
It was Banks who recommended Botany Bay as a suitable site for a penal settlement.
The penal settlement of Port Arthur is now a tourist attraction.
The town was then a penal settlement.
By this time the Penal Settlement had also been ex - tended considerably.
The convicts were transferred to the penal settlement of Port Arthur.
In 1778 a penal settlement was established at Botany Bay when the first shipment of convicts arrived.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the penal settlement at New South Wales.
Newcastle remained a penal settlement until 1822, when the settlement was opened up to farming.
Escaped convicts from the Moreton Bay penal settlement hid in the region.
By the 1820s a small but thriving capitalist economy had taken root alongside the penal settlement.

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Newcastle remained a penal settlement for nearly 20 years.
Under the Marathas, Lingana was used as a penal settlement.
At the New Zealand penal settlement.
The British claimed the island in 1788 and used it as a penal settlement.
He had visited the Ross Island penal settlement.
Convicted of treason . " Sentenced to 18 months " at the New Zealand penal settlement.
In June 1824 Hassall was appointed chaplain to the penal settlement of Port Macquarie.
Sentenced to 18 months at the New Zealand penal settlement.
In 1839 transportation of convicts to Moreton Bay ceased and the Brisbane penal settlement was closed.

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