Elchaninova, O. Yu., Elchaninov, A. P. Prisons of Russia at the End of the 19th — Beginning of the 20th Centuries: Legal Grounds, System of Administration, Incarceration Conditions (based on works by prerevolutionary scientists)

Abstract: The article analyzes imprisonment as one of the basic forms of punishment in pre-revolutionary Russia. The authors of the article describe transformations of the system of imprisonment at the end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th centuries. Big part of the article is devoted to the t ypes of prisons, the system of management and everyday life in a prison. The authors also discuss the issue on participation of a society in a control over prisons, status of officers at punitive organizations and the results of the General Prison Instruction 1915.

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