Excerpt from Report of the Senate Committee on Penitentiary Reform to the 48th General Assembly of Missouri, 1915 We have in our State Penitentiary at Jefferson City more prisoners than are to be found in any other penal institution in the United States. There are at Jefferson City, including the female prisoners, more than individuals, aside from the inmates of the reformatories for boys and girls at Chilli cothe and Boonville. In some of the states there is a far greater number in the penal institutions; for example, in New York, whose penal population numbers individuals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.