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The horrors of tsarism
A century ago, in the textbook “study of the police soul,” the feuilletonist Vlasiy Doroshevich was horrified by the number of prisoners in tsarist Russia—72 thousand people...
As of the first quarter of 2013, according to official data, 695 thousand convicts are serving sentences in the country. Another 113 thousand people are in pre-trial detention centers awaiting sentencing.