Chapter I - My first acquaintance with Russian prisons
Chapter III - The fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Chapter IV - Outcast Russia
Chapter V – The exile in Siberia
Chapter VI - The exile on Sakhalin.
Chapter VII - A foreigner on Russian prisons.
Chapter VIII - In French prisons
Chapter IX - On the moral influence of prisons on prisoners.
Chapter X - Are prisons necessary?
Appendix A - Extracts from the "Act of accusation" brought before a court martial against the soldiers charged with having carried correspondence between the prisoners of the Alexis Ravelin and their acquaintances.
Appendix B - Part played by the exiles in the colonization of Siberia.
Appendix C - Extracts from the report read by M. Shakeeff at the sitting of the representatives of the St. Petersburg nobility on February 17th, 1881 (O.S.).
Appendix D - On reformatories for boys in France.