Escapes of Prisoners in the History of Russian Penitentiary Institutions of the late XIX – early XX centuries
Journal: Bylye Gody
Year: 2022

The study reveals the history, conditions, statistics and characteristic features of escapes of prisoners of penitentiary institutions of Russia at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries from a historical and legal standpoint, and presents the practice of prison departments to combat them. The authors have established a direct dependence of escapes on the prevailing socio-political conditions in the Russian Empire, the development of the revolutionary situation in the country. The paper presents the i