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From an article about a penal colony:

Сотрудники судебно-уголовной системы до сих пор не дали ей такой возможности как работать за пределами колонии при наличии нашего филиала.

Is the sense that this organization has a branch near the penal colony anyway, or that they would travel there so said prisoner could work?

The difference is between:

"X has been denied the opportunity to work outside the colony where we have a branch"

and

"X has been denied the opportunity to work outside the colony with our branch present."