Penal colony

A Penal Colony is a colony used to detain prisoners and generally use them for penal labor in an economically underdeveloped part of the state's (usually colonial) territories, and on a far larger scale than the prison farm. The prison regime was always harsh, often including severe corporal punishment.

Fiction

The concept of remote and inhospitable prison planets has been employed by science fiction writers. Some of the famous examples include Robert Sheckley's Omega, Salusa Secundus in Frank Herbert's Dune, and the penal colony in Alien 3. In the Star Trek universe, Rura Penthe is a Klingon colony where prisoners mine dilithium. The Doctor Who serial Frontier in Space features a lunar penal colony in the 26th century; a lunar penal colony of the 2002nd century is also mentioned in the episode Bad Wolf.

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Planet - Science fiction - Robert Sheckley - Omega - Salusa Secundus - Frank Herbert - Dune - Alien 3 - Star Trek - Rura Penthe - Dilithium - Doctor Who - Frontier in Space - Lunar - Bad Wolf

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In the Penal Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka.

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In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka

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