Excerpt from Transactions of the Third National Prison Reform Congress, Held at Saint Louis, Missouri, May 13-16, 1874: Being the Third Annual Report of the National Prison Association of the United States Present State of the Prison Question in Norway, by M. Petersen, Actual State of the Penitentiary Question in Italy, by M. 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.