How to Use penal colony in a Sentence
penal colony
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This month, the artist Ales Pushkin died in a penal colony at age 57.
—Valerie Hopkins Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 22 July 2023
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In March, he was sentenced to 6½ years in a penal colony and stripped of his rank.
—Neil MacFarquhar, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
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This month, artist Ales Pushkin died in a penal colony at age 57.
—Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
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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
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The mother of two was sentenced to six years in a penal colony.
—Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
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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
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He was sentenced to five years in the Grodno penal colony.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
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Many died from disease and the conditions of the penal colony.
—Karlijn Korpershoek, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
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In August, she was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony.
—Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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She was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony, according to her lawyers.
—Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
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Russian law prohibits the use of the substance, and Griner was detained in a women’s penal colony.
—Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
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Despite this, Russia sentenced Griner to nine years in a penal colony.
—Justin Klawans, The Week, 21 Feb. 2023
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State prosecutors had asked the court to hand him another 20 years in a penal colony.
—Reuters, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
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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
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Key Background Navalny died in a Russian penal colony on Feb. 16.
—James Farrell, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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Months later, she was convicted on drug charges and sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony.
—Elena Burnett, NPR, 6 May 2024
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She had previously been moved to a penal colony in Mordovia.
—Sydney Bishop, CNN, 19 July 2024
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The vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin died last month at an Arctic penal colony.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
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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
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Nevertheless, a Russian judge sentenced her to nine years in a penal colony built on the site of a former gulag in Mordovia.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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