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MORE RIGORBUS TREATMENT.
A COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS. (Received April 12, 9 a.m.; ST. PETERSBURG, April 11. The committee of the Council of Empire has presented a report favouring more rigorous dietary and disciplinary treatment of prisoners. The present daily cost of feeding prisoners 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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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10211, 13 April 1911, Page 5
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88RUSSIAN PRISONS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10211, 13 April 1911, Page 5
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