Corrective labor colony
Type of prison in post-Soviet states / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A corrective colony (Russian: исправительная колония, romanized: ispravitelnaya koloniya, abbr. ИК/IK) is the most common type of prison in Russia and some other post-Soviet states.[further explanation needed] Such colonies combine penal detention with compulsory work (penal labor).[1][2] The system of labor colonies and camps originated in 1929,[3][4][5] and after 1953, the corrective penal colonies in the Soviet Union developed as a post-Stalin replacement of the Gulag labor camp system.