Corrective Labor Colony
A corrective colony (, ИК/IK) is the most common type of prisons in Russia, prison in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. Such colonies combine penal detention with compulsory work (penal labor).''Encyclopedia of Soviet Law'' (1985) , section "Penitentiary Institutions" The system of labor colonies and camps originated in 1929, and after 1953, the corrective penal colonies in the Soviet Union developed as a post-Joseph Stalin, Stalin replacement of the Gulag labor camp system. Soviet Union In the Soviet Union, the labor colonies were governed by the Corrective Labor Law (Исправительно-Трудовой Кодекс). The Corrective labor Law of 1933 defined different types of labor colonies (Фабрично-заводские и сельскохозяйственные исправительно-трудовые колонии, Исправительно-трудовые колонии массовых работ, Штрафные исправительно ...
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