Bagne

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A bagne is a penal establishment for forced labor, often located in penal colonies in french history. Not all convicts were sentenced to forced labor.^[1]

The word "bagne" comes from the Italian bagno, name of a prison in Livorno built on the site of a therma, an ancient Roman Bathhouse.^[2]