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A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are engaged in forced labor. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons. Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators.In the Soviet Union, a synonym, Labor colony was also in use; more exactly, "Corrective labor colony", (исправительно-трудовая колония, ИТК).
Notable labor camps
- Imperial Russia operated a system of remote Siberian forced labor camps as part of its regular judicial system, called katorga. Though conditions were difficult, they were mild compared to those of later Soviet camps.
- The Soviet government took over the already extensive katorga system and expanded it immensely, eventually organizing the Gulag to run the camps. These camps were notorious for their extremely rough conditions; new prisoner death rate was as high as 80% at some camps. During and after the Great Purges, the Gulag camps housed millions of prisoners. Stalin used them both as a source of cheap labor, and as indirect extermination camps.
- The Communist Party of China has operated many labor camps for political prisoners. Many leaders of China were put into labor camps after purges, including Deng Xiaoping and Liu ShaoqiLiu Shaoqi Hanyu Pinyin Liu Shaoq Wade-Giles Liu Shao-ch'i Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Liu Shaoq ( November 24, 1898 November 12, 1969) was a leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the People's Republic of China. Liu received his univ.
- Nazis operated many extremely brutal concentration campsA concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the interne, which provided free forced labor for industrial and other jobs during World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough. There were several categories of Arbeitslager in Nazi system, for different categories of inmates.
- A notable example is Mittelbau-DoraMittelbau-Dora or Mittelbau concentration camp complex was formally established in 1944 near Nordhausen, Germany, south of Harz mountains from the already existing Buchenwald camps. Finally it comprised around 40 camps. The main goal of the complex was to labor camp complex that serviced the production of the V-2 rocketThe V-2 rocket was an early ballistic missile used by Germany during the later stages of World War II against mostly British and Belgian targets. Pre-operational history As early as 1927 members of the German Rocket Society had started experimenting with. See List of Nazi concentration camps for more.
- The Khmer RougeThe Khmer Rouge or Khmers Rouges ("Red Khmers") was the French name, also widely used in the English-speaking world, for the communist organisation which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The organisation's official names were Communist Party of Cambodia operated labor camps in Cambodia following their seizure of power, for the "rehabilitation" of the (loosely defined) bourgeois classes.
Prisons and detention centres
