How to Use penal colony in a Sentence

penal colony

noun

• This month, the artist Ales Pushkin died in a penal colony at age 57.
  — Valerie Hopkins Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 22 July 2023
• In March, he was sentenced to 6½ years in a penal colony and stripped of his rank.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• This month, artist Ales Pushkin died in a penal colony at age 57.
  — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• In March, he was sentenced to six and a half years in a penal colony and stripped of his rank.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• The mother of two was sentenced to six years in a penal colony.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• On March 20, a Russian court sentenced him to six and a half years in a penal colony.
  — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
• He was sentenced to five years in the Grodno penal colony.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• Many died from disease and the conditions of the penal colony.
  — Karlijn Korpershoek, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• In August, she was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
• She was sentenced in August in a Russian court to nine years in prison and was held at a penal colony.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
• In the early 1980s, he was convicted of armed robbery and fraud and spent nine years in a penal colony.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• Griner was held in a women’s penal colony and pleaded guilty to her charges in July 2022.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
• She was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony, according to her lawyers.
  — Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• Despite this, Russia sentenced Griner to nine years in a penal colony.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 21 Feb. 2023
• State prosecutors had asked the court to hand him another 20 years in a penal colony.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
• But authorities there sent him back to Russia, where he was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in a penal colony.
  — Erika Kinetz, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• Key Background Navalny died in a Russian penal colony on Feb. 16.
  — James Farrell, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin died last month at an Arctic penal colony.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• Last week, Yarmysh said that for three days in a row Navalny's lawyers spent hours at the penal colony waiting for permission to visit him, only to be turned away at the last minute.
  — TIME, 11 Dec. 2023
• Her appeal was denied in October and she was moved to a penal colony in Mordovia, which is 200-plus miles south of Moscow, in November.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2023
• One day last August, a helicopter made a noisy approach to a penal colony in southern Russia, flying over the barracks and landing in a large open field.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Though a Russian judge sentenced her to nine years in a penal colony, she was released as part of a prisoner exchange 10 months later and returned to the U.S. in December.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• Griner was detained a week before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and held for a time in a penal colony to extract concessions from the U.S. government.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• The latest charges against Navalny were laid out in Moscow’s district court in late July, and the trial was conducted in closed-door hearings at the penal colony where he is being held.
  — Aaron Boxerman and Valeriya Safronova, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• What happens when an island is taken over, turned into a prison or penal colony, and later left deserted?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• The former penal colony on the Islas Marías archipelago now boasts a tourism center, restaurant and cafe, as well as villas for guests to stay in before hitting the beaches.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• Navalny’s parents, Anatoly and Lyudmila, attempted to attend the start of the trial in person but left the penal colony after the hearing was closed.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• Navalny died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony.
  — Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
• He was sentenced to serve 16 years in a Russian penal colony and remains incarcerated.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2023
• At one point, his team says, the authorities in the Arctic region where Mr. Navalny died in a penal colony threatened to bury him on the prison grounds if his mother did not agree to a private funeral.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024