Labor camp

A labor camp or work camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especially prison farms). Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators.

Labor camps in various countries

  • Albania
  • Allied Forces
  • Bulgaria
  • Burma
  • China
  • Cuba
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Italian Libya
  • Nazi Germany
  • Japan
  • North Korea
  • Communist Romania
  • Russia and Soviet Union
  • Sweden
  • Turkey
  • United States
  • Vietnam
  • Yugoslavia
  • See also

  • Chain gang
  • Civilian Inmate Labor Program
  • Extermination through labor
  • Memorial (society)
  • Penal colony
  • Notes

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