Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)
5. inhabited places
6. [settlements by occupants]

Narrower term/s

• penal colonies

Anotations

Scope note:

Settlements established for the purpose of containing prisoners or other detainees and punishing them through forced labor, whether overseas or within the boundaries of the founding state. For inhabited places containing prisons, but not necessarily established as settlements for penal purposes, use "prison centers (inhabited places)."