RUSSIAN PRISONS.
MORE RIGOROUS TREATMENT. | A COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION. DESPERATE CONVICTS. By Telegraph.— Presi Asioclatlon.— Copyright (Received April 12, 9 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 11th April. The committee of the Council of Em- j pire has presented a report favouring more rigorous dietary and disciplinary treatment of prisoners. The present daily cost of feeding priEoners is a penny to three halfpence a day each. Meat is not provided, except on holidays.. The St. Petersburg newspaper Reitch describes how ten prisoners cut open their stomachs as a protest against the present rigorous treatment.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 7
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90RUSSIAN PRISONS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 7
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