The Main Administration of Camps,[a] abbreviated as GULag, was a system of rehabilitative labor camps in the Soviet Union. Most of the prisoners were convicted of regular crimes and were not counterrevolutionaries. At the peak of the GULag system, 2.4% of the adult Soviet population was incarcerated, whereas 2.8% of the United States population is currently incarcerated.[1]
Working conditions
Inmates worked 10-hour days until 1954, when the work day was reduced to 8 hours. Prisoners who worked very productively could have their sentences reduced by up to half and were given extra food or money.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Russian: Главное управление лагерей
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Saed Teymuri (2018-10-31). "The Truth about the Soviet Gulag - Surprisingly Revealed by the CIA" The Stalinist Katyusha. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2022-09-11.