The problem of prisons’ supply in pre-revolutionary Russia (on the materials of the «Prison bulletin»)

The article studies the coverage of the procurement processes of the prisoners and guards in the pre-revolutionary Russian prisons, analyzing the pages of magazine «Prison Bulletin». This issue was the departmental publication of the Central Prison Directorate. But due to saturation coverage of questions, analyzed there, this magazine was a unique source, considered to be the document needed for the purposes of the record keeping. In this bulletin the questions of the issue were analyzed very precisely and nowadays the «Prison Bulletin» materials are the valuable data for lawyers and historians. In the article the authors also deals with the problems of material support for jail-houses, supply of prisoners, questions of spending the government budget in the course of Imperial Russian law reform.