Excerpt from Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the National Prison Association of the United States: Held at Austin, Texas, December 26, 1897 ON account of the prevalence of the yellow fever in the South, the date of the Twenty-sixth Annual Congress of the National Prison Association of the United States was changed by order of the Executive Committee in concurrence with the wishes of the Local Committee. 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.