It was a thing 90 years ago from now that 1300 prisoners came to this ground.
As for the first name of Abashiri prison, "Abashiri prisoner outside public office".
It was very decided in the 23rd year of Meiji that it moved a prisoner from "Kusiro prison"
to Abashiri to do the construction of the central road.

It was 1 big prison which could accommodate 1,500 people the "outside public office"
established as an accommodation establishment.
"Abashiri prisoner outside public office" changed in the name of the "Abashiri prisoner lodgings" after that.
Then, it changed with Kushiro prison Abashiri branch, and it was renamed with August "Hokkaido prison
Abashiri branch"only after 2 months in June, the 24th year of Meiji.
It made a start as one prison that it was independent by this.
The number of the prisoner in the start is 1,392 people.
More than 30% was the prisoner of the life imprisonment.
Other prisoners were term of imprisonment 12 years and more serious crime people, too.
There were dark social conditions in those days in the background.

Discontent with the new government surged in the society through
the change term after the Meiji Restoration.
Criminals increased rapidly, and furthermore the civil war which
made a southwestern post and so on the beginning happened one after
another and happened.
The construction of the large-scale prison was advanced in vast
Hokkaido to accommodate these prisoners.
It was a thing in the 36th year of Meiji that the name of the
"Abashiri prison" was born.
"Abashiri prison" was famous as a heinous drift of the criminal in Japan.
It is afraid again for the criminal as the strictest prison of the end of the ground.