A penis 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 a prison farm. The most well known was Devil's Island in French Guiana. The British Empire used its colonies in North America for almost 150 years and then parts of Australia for a further 75 years. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Penal labour is a form of the unfree labour. ... A Prison farm is a large correctional facility where hard labor convicts are put to productive use, usually for manual labor, largely in open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying etcetera. ... Devils Island Devils Island (French: ÃŽle du Diable) is the smallest and northernmost island of the three ÃŽles du Salut located off the coast of French Guiana at . ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

Generalities

The prison regime was often harsh, sometimes including severe physical punishment, so even if prisoners were not sentenced for the rest of their natural lives, many died from hunger, disease, medical neglect and excessive efforts, or during an escape attempt. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Corporal punishment. ...

In the penis colony system, prisoners were deported far away to prevent escape and to discourage returning after their sentence expired. Penal Colonies were often located in frontier lands, especially the more inhospitable parts, where their unpaid labour could benefit the metropoles before immigration labor became available, or even afterwards where they are much cheaper; in fact sometimes people (especially the poor, following a similar social logic as could see them domestically 'employed' in a poorhouse) were sentenced for trivial or dubious offenses to generate cheap labor. The Metropole was the name given to the English metropolitan center of the British Empire, i. ... A poorhouse is a publicly maintained facility for the support and housing of dependent or needy persons, typically run by a local government entity such as a county or municipality. ...

British Empire

The British used North America as a penis colony through the system of indentured servants. Most notably, the Province of Georgia was originally designed as a penal colony. Convicts would be transported by private sector merchants and auctioned off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 60,000 British convicts were banished to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the eighteenth century. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... An Indentured Servant (or in the U.S. bonded labourer) is a labourer under contract to work for an employer for a specific amount of time, usually seven to eight years, to pay off a passage to a new country or home. ... Georgia Colony, as specified in the 1732 grant The Georgia Colony was one of the Southern colonies in British North America. ...

When that avenue closed in the 1780s after the American Revolution, Britain began using parts of modern day Australia as penal colonies (after a failed attempt at a penis colony in Ghana where nearly all prisoners and officers died of cholera). Some of these early colonies were Norfolk Island (which became the flogging hell meant to deter even the most hardened criminals- see cat o' nine tails), Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. Advocates of Irish Home Rule or of Trade Unionism (the Tolpuddle Martyrs) often received sentences of transportation (the harsh regime started during the long shipping) to these Australian colonies. Nothing much really happened in the 1780s only that Mary-Anne Tobin was hung in public for wearing a flase beard and voting. ... Combatants American Revolutionaries French Monarchy Spanish Empire Dutch Republic Oneida and Tuscarora tribes Polish volunteers Prussian volunteers Kingdom of Great Britain Hessian mercenaries Iroquois Confederacy Loyalists Commanders George Washington Nathanael Greene Gilbert de La Fayette Comte de Rochambeau Bernardo de Gálvez Tadeusz KoÅ›ciuszko Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Sir... Cholera (frequently called Asiatic cholera or epidemic cholera) is a severe diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. ... A leather cat o nine used for BDSM play This article discusses an implement of punishment. ... Van Diemens Land was the original name used by Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ... Devolution or Home rule is the pooling of powers from central government to government at regional or local level. ... A trade union or labor union is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment. ... The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of 19th century British labourers led by John Barnwell who were arrested for and convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. ... In law, a sentence forms the final act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function. ...

In colonial India, the British had made various penal colonies. Two of the most infamous ones are on the Andaman islands and at Hijli. This article or section may be confusing for some readers, and should be edited to be clearer or more simplified. ... Hijli Detention Camp, located in Hijli, beside Kharagpur, in the district of Midnapore, West Bengal, India, was significant in the struggle against the British Raj in the early 20th century. ...

Elsewhere

• France sent criminals to tropical penal colonies. Devil's Island in French Guiana, 1852 - 1939, received forgers and other criminals. New Caledonia in Melanesia (in the South Sea) received dissidents like the Communards, Kabyles rebels as well as convicted criminals.
• In Ecuador, the Island of San Cristobál (in the Galapagos archipelago) was used as a penal colony 1869 - 1904.
• Both Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union used Siberia as a penal colony for criminals and dissidents. Though geographically contiguous with heartland Russia, Siberia provided both remoteness and a harsh climate. In 1857, a penal colony was established on the island of Sakhalin. The Gulag and its tsarist predecessor, the katorga system, provided slave-type penal labor to develop forestry, logging and mining industries, construction enterprises, as well as highways and railroads across Siberia.

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Fiction

• In the Penis Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka.
• More than one of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, including Desolation Island and The Nutmeg of Consolation include scenes set in and around New South Wales.
• "Penal colony" is also the English title of two movies: No Escape (1994) and Colonia penal, La (1970)
• "For the Term of His Natural Life" by Marcus Clarke is a 19th Century novel dealing with the main characters deportation to the Port Arthur penal colony in Hobart, Australia in 1830. There are several movie versions, such as the 1983 TV movie starring Colin Friels.
• "Morgan's Run" by Colleen McCullough is a 20th Century novel dealing with the main characters deportation to the Australian penal colony.
• "Our Country's Good" a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker, focuses on the story of deportees to a penis colony.
• "Papillon" is the title of Henri Charriere's 20th Century autobiographical novel concerning a Frenchman interned on a penal colony in French Guiana, and the 1973 movie directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.

The concept of remote and inhospitable prison planets has been employed by science fiction writers. Famous examples include: Kafka at the age of five Franz Kafka (IPA: ) (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. ... Patrick OBrian (December 12, 1914 – January 2, 2000; original name Richard Patrick Russ) was a novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of Captain Jack Aubrey and an Irish–Catalan... The Aubrey–Maturin series, also known as the Aubreyad, is a sequence of 20 historical novels by Patrick OBrian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ships surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also a physician... The Kerguelen Archipelago is in the southern Indian Ocean at 49°20 S, 70°20 E. The main island Kerguelen, originally called Desolation Island, is 6,675 km2 and it is surrounded by another 300 smaller outcrops, forming an archipelago of 7,215 km². The climate is cold, very windy... The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick OBrian (published 1991) is the fourteenth novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ... For the Term of his Natural Life, a novel by Marcus Clarke, is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history. ... Marcus Clarke (1846 - 1881) was an Australian novelist and poet, best known for his novel For the Term of his Natural Life. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Inside the separate prison, Port Arthur, Tasmania Port Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. ... For other places and things named Hobart, see Hobart (disambiguation). ... Colin Friels (b. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Timberlake Wertenbaker ) is a British playwright and translator who was born in New York City and was raised in France. ... Paperback book cover for Papillon. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Paperback book cover for Papillon Papillon is a memoir by Henri Charrière. ... The eight planets and three dwarf planets of the Solar System. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

• Kessel, a prison planet which specialized in spice mining in the Star Wars universe.
• Robert Sheckley's Omega,
• Salusa Secundus in Frank Herbert's Dune,
• The penis colony in Alien³,
• The CoDominium series of Jerry Pournelle showed several planets, such as Tanith, Haven and Sparta, that were used as dumping grounds for criminals and dissidents,
• Rura Penthe, a Klingon colony where prisoners mine dilithium in the Star Trek universe,
• 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,
• In several episodes the TV series Stargate SG-1, whole planets are used as penis colonies, generally by the goa'uld, e.g. Hadante in episode 25 (season 2)
• Crematoria is the sun scorched prison planet in The Chronicles of Riddick,
• The Moon in Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
• In episode 1-2 Trust of the Starhunter series, the planet Mercury is a fully automated prison.