Talk:Penal colony

message: Wohee!  The quality of this article is low as can be.  Ever heard of penal colonies called Japan and Australia? 75.139.214.136 (talk) 01:05, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Disambiguation: "Penal Colony" is also a band: http://www.myspace.com/penalcolony
:: The band does not have a page on Wikipedia and therefore does not merit a notice at the top of the page, or I would have put one. Arawn 00:22, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: I'm not saying this isn't true, but while I remember hearing about indentured servants in American history, I always thought that they CHOSE to come to the colonies; it was my understanding that these people became indentured servants as a way of paying for the trip.  Does anyone know for sure?
If it is true, could someone post a link to more information about this?  Thanks.
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Some chose, some had authorities or sentencing judges choose for them. See for example http://home.clara.net/iainkerr/kerr/indenture.htm
Daniel Defoe gave, I believe, a fictional account of criminal servitude in Virginia in Moll Flanders.
I imagine that criminal transportation becomes a taboo subject for patriotic North Americans (compare Australians, who know of the practice too well to hide it). I recall an estimate that by 1776, approximately 75% of the population of the 13 colonies could claim an indentured ancestor of one sort or another.
219.88.205.91 11:41, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indentured servitude as punishment? 

message: Fastifex has repeatedly added material to this page that has been removed by other editors (see , , ). A link to search IMDB for "penal colony" is completely pointless; and what on Earth has a list of statesmen in Ecuador got to do with penal colonies?
He also keeps adding "slave-type" to penal labor in the paragraph about Russian penal colonies. As I commented last time that I removed this, if he wants to discuss penal labor as being slave-type, he should do so on penal labor.
This time around I spotted and removed the following phrase after "Norfolk Island":
: which became the flogging hell meant to deter even the most hardened criminals- see cat o' nine tails)
This is yet another example of Fastifex adding unrelated BDSM content to articles (see for example the history of "wooden spoon"). — Hex (❝?!❞) 14:17, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits by [[User:Fastifex|Fastifex]] 

message: Someone somewhere inserted a mention that all of the prisoners at the colony in Ghana died of priapism.  This is obviously a joke - someone in a 'penal' colony dying of an engorged penis?  Har har.  Doesn't belong on Wiki.  I also removed some parts that made no sense and added a citation tag for the bit about Irish prisoners.  Someone who cares more than me can do the research and add the appropriate footnote. Wtbe7560 14:36, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe this person got a bit confused, and thought we were talking about penile colonies? ... :~}  CleanUpAisle7 (talk) 09:46, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disguised vandalism 

message: No Escape (Escape from Absolom) 1994
Escape from New York 1981
Escape from LA 1996
89.138.221.2 (talk) 17:50, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More "In fiction" movies 

message: I'm new to contributing to Wikipeida but under generalities appear the following:
"In fact, some 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."
Which perhaps should appear as :  
Some people who might be employed in a 'poorhouse' anyways, were sentenced for trivial or dubious offenses to generate cheap labor.
I took out the 'In fact', since its needless in my opinion, Wikipedia is facts!  And the parenthesis which I believe in most cases show poor writing skills.
Also does anyone believe that this claim deserves a citation?  I would like to see something to at least show me that this might have happened.  Maybe it should appear:
Although debatable, some people who might be employed in a 'poorhouse' anyways, were sentenced for trivial or dubious offenses to generate cheap labor.
Let me know if I'm on the right track here!
Jdrumstik (talk) 03:33, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism to Generalities Section

message: What U S Colony was founded as a home for British Prisoners?76.192.0.213 (talk) 21:41, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Penal Colonies 

message: See my edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Penal_colony&diff=558354761&oldid=558194322
I tried to fix. Not sure it's good enough.. but better? Don't know what happened there before or how to fix it further (or why there is a "?" when they seem to be the same). comp.arch (talk) 22:22, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two strange links under "Non-fiction" 

message: The section header "Non-fiction" is misleading. It causes the reader to think that all the actually existing penal colonies listed before it are fictional. JIP | Talk 06:03, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Non-fiction" 

message: You need to distinguish between a penal colony and a prison within a colony or foreign possession. There is a claim here that Guantanamo Bay is a penal colony. I have to say that is a huge stretch. The bulk of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is not the prison within it, any more than Indiana is not Terre Haute. It needs an external citation otherwise it is merely an opinion of the editor . Do I need to cite WP:NOR. I will remove it if not supported.Hmcst1 (talk) 08:25, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Distinction needed

message: The "In fiction" section is over-sized in relation to the rest of the article, and adds little other than "here's an unsourced list where a fictional penal colony is mentioned, no matter how trivially".  It needs drastically cut back, to better examples where a penal colony plays a significant role in the plot, and needs cites to sources.  --Escape Orbit (Talk) 17:46, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiction 

message: — Assignment last updated by Cuttera24 (talk) 15:45, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ARCN 211 Material Histories of Labor

message: On today's main page, in the section on Alexei Navalny, it listed "penal colony" instead of prison, gulag, or other term. I found it odd that this page then didn't have a section on Russian prisons. I'm wondering if we should add more of that content here, or if the editors of the main page should have chosen a more appropriate term. —Zujine|talk 17:21, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russia