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Instead, the judge increased Barnes' sentence by six months, ordering that he be sent to a high-security penal colony and receive psychiatric treatment.
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Tanya Stukalova, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
Trump’s new set of tariffs also targeted Norfolk Island, a former British penal colony with a population of just more than 2,000 people.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic to tiny tropical islands to a former British penal colony whose leader is befuddled that it was targeted.
—Rod McGuirk and Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2025
Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Putin, died in February 2024 under suspicious circumstances in a remote penal colony.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
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Tanya Stukalova, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
Trump’s new set of tariffs also targeted Norfolk Island, a former British penal colony with a population of just more than 2,000 people.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic to tiny tropical islands to a former British penal colony whose leader is befuddled that it was targeted.
—Rod McGuirk and Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2025
Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Putin, died in February 2024 under suspicious circumstances in a remote penal colony.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
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“Penal colony.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penal%20colony. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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