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SIBERIA

IMPROVEMENTS AND AMELIORATIONS.

Below will be found references to all of the improvements and ameliorations in the condition of Siberian prisons and prisoners that I have been able to find in the reports of the prison administration for the years that have elapsed since my return from Siberia.[1]

Place. Nature of Improvement.

Alexándrofsk 3500 rúbles appropriated in 1886 for new kitchen, bakery, and water-closet in Alexándrofsk central prison. Rep. p. 80.

Alexándrofsk Erection of new forwarding prison begun in 1886 and finished in 1888. Reps, pp.. 82 and 99.

Balagánsk 15,000 rúbles appropriated for new prison in 1888. Rep. p. 84.

Bíisk New prison finished in 1888. Rep. p. 99.

Blagovéishchensk New prison finished in 1886. Rep. p. 103.

Irkútsk 25,000 rúbles appropriated in 1888 for new prison hospital. Rep. p. 84.

Khabarófka New prison finished in 1886. Rep. p. 90.

Krasnoyársk 3000 rúbles appropriated in 1886 for capital repairs to the city prison. Rep. p. 86.

Nerchínsk 65,000 rúbles appropriated in 1886, 37,000 in 1887, and 55,000 in 1888, to continue work on new prisons at the Nerchínsk mines. Reps. pp. 79, 82, and 84.

Nerchínsk New prison finished in 1888 at the Nerchínsk mine of Górni Zerentúi. Rep. p. 99.

Perm 2000 rúbles appropriated in 1888 for the organization of a women's section in the Perm prison. Rep. p. 89.

Tobólsk A new palisade erected around the Tobólsk city prison. Rep. p. 88.

Tomsk [city] . . 30,000 rúbles appropriated for the erection of hospital barracks in the Tomsk forwarding prison. Rep. p. 94.

Tomsk [province] 1000 rúbles appropriated for repairs to the Susléfski étape in 1886, and 5240 rúbles for the reconstruction of it in 1887. Reps. pp. 84 and 88. 1300 rúbles appropriated in 1888 for capital repairs to the Tiazhinski polu-étape. Rep. p. 91.

  1. The reports of the Russian prison administration are not published until two years or more after the time to which they relate, and the report for 1888, which appeared in 1890, is the last that I have received.