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ment story had an extensive outlook over the surrounding country through at least three large windows. The corridors were twelve or fifteen feet wide; the stairways were of stone with iron balustrades; the solitary-confinement cells

TWO VIEWS OF THE NEW VÉRKHNI ÚDINSK PRISON A TRANS-BAIKÁL ÉTAPE

were as spacious as an ordinary American hall-bedroom; the arrangements for heating, ventilation, and cleanliness seemed to me to be as nearly perfect as they could be made; and as a whole the prison impressed me as being the very best I had seen in Russia, and one of the best I had ever seen in any country. Its cost was about 200,000 rúbles ($100,000), and it was intended to accommodate 440