Talk:Penal labour

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Contents 1 Improvement Drive 2 PI = Prison labour ? 3 Spelling of lab*r 4 Mention of Alleged German Camp Purposes 5 No Englishmen 6 Why is it out of use?

[edit] Improvement Drive

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[edit] PI = Prison labour ?

The PI page says that "PI may stand for: Prison labor". But if that is the case why PI and not PL???!

I found on the List of Prison Break characters page that it may mean "Prison Industry".

Anyway, if someone has an explaination for "PI", I think that it should be somewhere at the beginning of the page! It may be obvious to you but it is not at all for me... (english is not my mother tongue) ZeroJanvier 00:52, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling of lab*r

Why is it not "labor"? Is it because the British Empire invaded all these countries and made penal labour of them? Skinnyweed 18:19, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mention of Alleged German Camp Purposes

Why, if the subject of the page is "penal labor," is there a totally unnecessary comment about the "main purpose" of German NSDAP's concentration camps? It seems that the camps need be only discussed in the context of the article at hand.

"The Soviet Gulag camps were a continuation of the punitive labour system of Imperial Russia known as katorga, but on a larger scale - together with executions and forced migrations the Stalinist oppression may have made more victims than the Nazi occupation."

That sentence is confusing, does it mean the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union and the millions of deaths suffered during the fighting or the Nazi occupation of Europe.

[edit] No Englishmen

We shall use the proper AMERICAN spelling for this site, thank you. This is America, and if you don't like it, you can GET OUT!!!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.195.16.211 (talk) 18:49, 15 May 2007 (UTC).

The Internet is America??!! <confused> NuclearWinner (talk) 23:43, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

No, his PC is in America... "How did you all make into my PC?! Show me your visa!" :) 213.199.30.165 (talk) 17:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why is it out of use?

The article mentions that prisoners' labour can be used to the government's economic gain. It doesn't say why it has fallen out of use. Anyone know? Leushenko (talk) 20:34, 2 March 2008 (UTC)