CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE ADMINISTRATION OF CORRECTIVEUNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OFOBLAST' (UPRAVLENIYE ISPRAVIT=LNOLAGERV.O. KARnGANOINSKOrU^tKWStL. Li-UNINDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
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AMPSARAGANDA UERE
ANO THE UNRECALLtU LAMr LULRltD GENERAL REGIME" CAMPS FOR PRISONERS UHO UHILE CAMPSTRICT REGIME*:
KARAGANDA WERE LOCA NORTHWEST UERE SITUM NO THE OESIG OF THE WO TREATMENT J.
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lAMPA5 FOR rfcHALtRS ONLY. UHILE CAHPELDHAD SERIOUS. DRINKING PROBLEMS. THE TERMS "CORRECTIVE LABORLAGER--ITL> ANO "CORRECTIVE.(ISPRAVITELNO TRU00VOYEREUHEN REFERRING TO THE CAMPS. PRISONERS INCAMPS UERE ALLOUED MORE PARCELS FROM FRIENDS ANOALLOUED MORE FREQUENT VISITORS, AND HAD SOMEUHAT BET'ERAND FOOD THAN THOSE INCARCERATED IN STRICT REGIME CAMPS.
THE AVFRAGE SENTENCE FOR GENERAL REGIME PRISONERSEARS, UHILE STRICT REGIME INMATES USUALLY SERVEDEARS OR HORE.
4. STRICT REGIME CAHPELDRISONERSIVING ZONEORK ZONE. THE CAMP UASA WALL PLUS TUO OR THREE BARBED UIRE FENCES. THE FENCES UEREBUT GUARDS PATROLLEO BETWEEN TUO OF THE FENCES,DEVICES HAD BEEN INSTALLED TO DETECT ANY MOVEMENT. EMPLOYED AT THIS CAMP AND AT OTHER CAMPS IN THE AREA UEREMOST OF WHOM HAD BEEN RAISED IN THE KARAGANDA AREA. CONSISTED OF AN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING LOCATED OUTSIDEONG BUILOINGS WHERE THE PRISONERSESSPRISONERS' CLUB IN THE THE LIVING ZONE,ARGEAND POSSIBLY SEVERAL SMALLER BUILDINGS IN THE UDRKUERE REQUIRED TO WORK IN THE PRODUCTION BUILDING ANDA SMALL DAILY UAGE UHICH WAS HELD FOR THEM PENDING THEIRPRISON. AS FAR AS WAS KNGUN, ALL CORRECTIVE CAMPSITEM OR ITEMS. CAMPRODUCED SOFAS, MATTRESSES, AND UHILE CAHPHICH HELD FEMALE PRISONERS,OF CLOTHING SUCH AS PADDED COTTON JACKETS AND GLOVES,ASSIGNED TO CAMPORKED ON THE PRODUCTION
CONVEYOR SYSTEMS FOR USE IN MANUFACTURING PLANTS. THIS'.CAMPMETERS,UBLES PER .METER ,CA
PRODUCEDEST*QUALlTY PRODUGHQF^ANY:>OF-^T
IN THE KARAGANDA AREA:
ALCOHOLICS: MANY* OF THEMTJITH'APPROPRIAT
THE cStHING
OTHER CAMPS UAS EXTREMELY POOR, AND THESE ITEMS WERE OISTRIBUTEOBY WORKERS ON STATE AND COLLECTIVE FARMS. AS FAR AS UASOF THE PRODUCTS OF THE CAMPS UERE EXPORTED. THE PLOWS
IN CAMPERE OF ALL-STEEL CONSTRUCTION AND ALL
PARTS USEO IN THIS OEVICE UERE BUILT BY THE PRISONERS. _THE PLOUS WEREN HEIGHT ANO THE BLADES UEREONG. EACH PLOW BORE AN UNRECALLED IDENTIFICATION MARKING INSTALLED AT THE CAMP LOWS OF THIS TYPE UERE CONSTRUCTED AT CAMPACH YEAR. JBBBBfcTCOMMENT: NO EXCAVATING MACHINERY DR LIGHTING FIXTURE5 WEReTwJuFACTUREO AT ANY OF THE CAMPS IN
KARAGANDATO HAVE WORKED EIGHT
HOURS PER DAY, SIX DAYS PER UEEK.-xUQRKING CONDITIONS -WEREBE POOR BECAUSE OF INADEQUATE LIGHTING ANO EXCESSIVE
SHORTAGES OF MATERIAL OCCURRED FROM TIME .TO TIME. PARTICULARLY. WITH
-^SHECT^ND.rBi' "THEE BEEN.MAE
IVING CONDITIONS' FOR HIMSELF AND HIS
ABLE TO OBTAIN BETTER LIEUTENANTS.
LEADER^OrfHE^PPEARED ON THE SCENE. THE POKHAN KEPT ACTUALLY BARGAINED UITH THE CHIEF.ENGINE. TYPE AND AMOUNT OF UORK TO BE DONE BY THE BARGAINING POUER UIELDED BY THE POKHAN
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