A labor 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. Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators.During the period of Stalinism, the Gulag labor camps in the Soviet Union were officially called "Corrective labor camps." The term labor colony; more exactly, Corrective labor colony, was also in use, most notably the ones for underaged convicts and captured besprizorniki . After the reform of Gulag, the term "corrective labor colony" essentially encompassed labor camps.