Corrective labor colony

A corrective colony (Russian: исправительная колония, romanized: ispravitelnaya koloniya, abbr.

[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.

[1][2] "Colony-settlements" were establishments introduced in 1960s for convicts with good behavior who served at least half of the term for those eligible for parole and who served two thirds of the term and not eligible for parole.

[9] Corrective colony regimes are categorized as very strict/special, strict, general, and open.

[10] When not in the detachment, prisoners are required to participate in penal labor, which is in the form of work brigades in colony production zones where prisoners earn a wage of which most is paid to the colony for their upkeep.