labour camp

noun

1. a penal colony involving forced labour
2. a camp for migratory labourers

Example Sentences

In the past, minors who broke the law in this way would be sent to youth labour camps rather than put behind bars, and the punishment was usually less than five years.

From BBC

Some people were even sent to labour camps for breaking Covid rules, he said.

From BBC

He was born in Beijing in 1957, and grew up in labour camps in the north-west of China after his father, Ai Qing, an anti-establishment poet, was exiled.

From BBC

Millions of people described as "enemies of the people" were sent to Soviet labour camps, known as the Gulag, and 750,000 were summarily murdered during Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s.

From BBC

South Korea's government and international rights organisations have said defectors who are deported back to the North face harsh punishment including detention at labour camps where they are subject to dangerous treatment and conditions.

From Reuters