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Penal colonies

Remote settlement used to house convicts from the general population

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7 works

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    Sakhalin Island / Anton Chekhov ; translated by Brian Reeve.

    | Anton Chekhov | Date: 2007
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    Système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis, et de son application en France. Suivi d'un appendice sur les colonies pénales, et de notes statistiques / par mm. Gustave de Beaumont et Alexis de Tocqueville.

    | Gustave de Beaumont | Date: 1837
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    Thoughts on secondary punishments, in a letter to Earl Grey / By Richard Whately... To which are appended two articles. On transportation to New South Wales, and on secondary punishments; and some observations on colonization.

    | Richard Whately | Date: 1832
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    The convict ship, and England's exiles : in two parts / by Colin Arrott Browning.

    | Colin Arrott Browning | Date: 1847
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    Memorials of Millbank : and chapters in prison history / by Arthur Griffiths ; with illustrations. by R. Goff and the author.

    | Arthur Griffiths | Date: 1884
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