542

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 administra- tion for the years that have elapsed since my return from Siberia. 1 Place. ALEXANDROFSK . alexandrofsk . . Balagansk . . . Biisk Blagoveishchensk Irkutsk. . . . Nature of Improvement. 3500 rubles appropriated in 1886 for new kitchen, bakery, and water-closet in Alexandrofsk central prison. Rep. p. 80. Erection of new forwarding prison begun in 1886 and finished in 1888. Reps, pp.. 82 and 99. 15,000 rubles appropriated for new prison in 1888. Rep. p. 84. New prison finished in 1888. Rep. p. 99. New prison finished in 1886. Rep. p. 103. 25,000 rubles appropriated in 1888 for new prison hospital. Rep. p. 84. New prison finished in 1886. Rep. p. 90. 3000 rubles appropriated in 1886 for capital repairs to the city prison. Rep. p. 86. 65,000 rubles appropriated in 1886, 37,000 in 1887, and 55,000 in 1888, to continue work on new prisons at the Nerchinsk mines. Reps. pp. 79, 82, and 84. New prison finished in 1888 at the Nerchinsk mine of Gorni Zerentui. Rep. p. 99. 2000 rubles appropriated in 1888 for the organiza- tion of a women's section in the Perm prison. Rep. p. 89. A new palisade erected around the Tobolsk city prison. Rep. p. 88. 30,000 rubles appropriated for the erection of hos- pital barracks in the Tomsk forwarding prison. Rep. p. 94. 1000 rubles appropriated for repairs to the Sus- lefski etape in 1886, and 5240 rubles for the re- construction of it in 1887. Reps. pp. 84 and 88. 1300 rubles appropriated in 1888 for capital re- pairs to the Tiazhinski polu-etape. Rep. p. 91, 1 The reports of the Russian prison ad- relate, and the report for 1888, which ap- ministration are not published until two peared in 1890, is the last that I have re- ynrs or more after the time to which they ceived. ' Khabarofka . Krasnoyarsk. Nerchinsk. . Nerchinsk. Perm. . . Tobolsk. . . . Tomsk [city] . .

Tomsk [province]