Male prisoners not yet sentenced are put in the County Jail.
Its list includes 540 Soviet prisoners sentenced for expressing their political or religious views.
From there, prisoners sentenced to forced labor were sent north to Kolyma, an area rich in gold.
The new prison could be where prisoners sentenced by military tribunals would serve their terms.
A similar process is available for prisoners sentenced to death by the judgment of a federal court.
China harvests the organs of prisoners sentenced to death without their consent.
The average prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment spends 14 years behind bars.
In 1906, a prison and rock quarry opened on the site, where prisoners sentenced to hard labor would break rocks.
The law changed in December 1999, after which prisoners sentenced for a wider range of crimes should have been tested, the official said.
Now prisoners sentenced under the anti-terrorist law are to be allowed to take part in cultural and sporting activities.
