RUSSIA’S PRISON METHODS.
“SENSELESS CRUELTY.”
SICK CONVICTS LEFT WITHOUT FOOD.
[•UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.]
ST. PETERSBURG, July 6
Enquiries into the treatment of convicts employed on the- Amur railway construction work reveal wretched conditions. In Hasdolny district prisoners were subjected to senseless cruelty. Many are ruffering from scurvy. The food is indescribably bad.
One man was shot- dead for -impertinence.
A number of sick convicts were eight da vs without food.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3264, 8 July 1911, Page 7
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71RUSSIA’S PRISON METHODS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3264, 8 July 1911, Page 7
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