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What was the reason for establishing penal colonies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?


a. The penal colonies were established for prisoners to do masonry tasks

b. People wanted to exile criminals to remote settlements

c. Prisoners could be closely watched and put to harsh labor on penal colonies.

d. The king set up these prisons far away so that the citizens would be out of harm's way