Penal labour

thumb|A punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, 1945 The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from the 1930s to the early 1950s during Joseph Stalin's rule, but in English literature the term is popularly used for the system of forced labor throughout the Soviet era. The abbreviation GULAG (ГУЛАГ) stands for "Glávnoye upravléniye ispravítel'no-trudovýkh lageréy " (Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере

thumb|350px|Removing of shackles, painting by Aleksander Sochaczewski (1843–1923) Katorga (, ; from medieval and modern ; and Ottoman Turkish: , ) was a system of penal labor in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (see Katorga labor in the Soviet Union).

navigable canal on the Danube river in Romania

remote settlement used to house convicts from the general population

detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment

work that prisoners are required to perform

thumb|right|upright=1.25|A sweatshop in the United States c. 1890 A sweatshop or sweat factory is a cramped workplace with very poor and/or illegal working conditions, including little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting and ventilation, or uncomfortably or dangerously high or low temperatures. The work may be difficult, tiresome, dangerous, climatically challenging, or underpaid. Employees in sweatshops may work long hours with unfair wages, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated. Women make up 85 to 90% of swe

relocation of convicted criminals to a distant place

Kwalliso (, ) or kwan-li-so (sometimes known as political prison camp, political labor camp, or concentration camp) is the term for political penal labor and death camps in North Korea. They are the most severe punishment in the country besides capital punishment, and have been described as concentration camps.

type of prison in post-Soviet states

group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment

1749–1767 ethnic cleansing in the Kingdom of Spain

Cuban labor camps

Castle and former prison in Stollberg, Saxony.

false conflation of Irish indentured servitude and African chattel slavery

Degredado is the traditional Portuguese term for an exiled convict, especially between the 15th and 18th centuries.

concentration camp

penitentiaries in Italy and France from the 17th century