Excerpt from Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the National Prison Association of the United States: Held at Chicago, June 7-10, 1893 The Governor, for many years, has taken great interest in the subjects which have been discussed at the con gresses of your association. He entertains, if I understand him rightly, radical views in relation to crime prevention, and punishment or penalty for crimes committed. He thinks the tendency has been toward too much legisla tion, - more especially as to petty offenses, called misde meanors; and somewhat so as toward the more serious offenses, those classed as felonies or crimes; and that far too many arrests are made by police authorities in cities; and also that the police court system, not in our state alone but in several of our sister states, is faulty in the extreme. He has always been opposed to the letting of the labor of prisoners by contract; and has advocated earnestly the introduction of reformative agencies in the management of prisons; and has, so to speak, been in sympathy in all things with the purposes for which your association was formed. For these reasons, I repeat, I regret that he is not to be with us to-night. Your association was organized more than twenty years ago. Its first president was the then governor of Ohio, General Rutherford B. Hayes. Following him as presi dent was His Excellency Horatio Seymour, of New York. 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.