Dr. J. F. Gilmore, Warden Central Prison, Toronto, Canada, invited the
Congress to a meeting to be held Thursday, Sept. 27th, at Toronto in
behalf of the Charities and Correction of Canada.
W. E. Shefton, Supt. of the Ohio Reformatory, at Mansfield, invited the
Congress to visit that institution before they returned home.
JOSÉ F. GODOY, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE MEXICAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON, D.
C.,
Spoke of its prisons; they were partially after our cellular plan,
partly under the State government, and partly by private enterprise in
the lesser misdemeanors. That the prison officials were required to
keep a very minute description of every man, and that they were treated
morally and physically according as the several cases required, that
there was no absolute settled plan, that every man should be treated
alike, as in most of the United States, but that there was a tendency
in that direction.