Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Affairs of the Kingston Penitentiary, 1897Before attempting to give in detail a statement of the conclusions at which the commissioners have arrived respecting the moral and financial, or in other words the disciplinary and economic management of the penitentiary, it may be well to presenta summary of the general results of their inquiries on both these heads.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.