Siberia and the exile system . A loLU-ETAlli 0>i TUli iOMtK-ACHINSK KOAD. built from thirty to fifty years ago, when exile partiesdid not number more than 150 men, and they now have toaccommodate from 350 to 450. The result, as stated bythe inspector of exile transportation, is that in pleasantweather half the prisoners sleep on the ground in the court-yard, while in bad weather they fill all the kdmeras, lie onthe floors in the corridors, and even pack the cells are not even as habitable as they might bemade with a little care and attention. They are almostalways dirty; their w
Siberia and the exile system . A loLU-ETAlli 0>i TUli iOMtK-ACHINSK KOAD. built from thirty to fifty years ago, when exile partiesdid not number more than 150 men, and they now have toaccommodate from 350 to 450. The result, as stated bythe inspector of exile transportation, is that in pleasantweather half the prisoners sleep on the ground in the court-yard, while in bad weather they fill all the kdmeras, lie onthe floors in the corridors, and even pack the cells are not even as habitable as they might bemade with a little care and attention. They are almostalways dirty; their windows are so made that they can-not be opened; and notwithstanding the fact that the over-crowding, at certain seasons of the year, is almx)st beyond 384 SIBERIA belief; no provision whatever has been made in them forventihition. When our convicts, after their toilsome march of twenty-nine versts from Tomsk, reached at last the red-roofedjwhi-ctape of Semiluzhnaya, they were marshaled in rowsin front of the palisade and again
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