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Excerpt from Observations on the Visiting, Superintendence, and Government, of Female Prisoners Well knowing my incompetency for the task of writing for the public, I have felt considerable reluctance in sending to the press the following brief observations respecting the principles and plans adopted by the British Ladies' Society for visiting prisons: but, my long experience of the nature and effects of the system pursued by that Society, and the numerous applications made to me for farther explanation and information on this interesting subject, induce me to make an attempt, on which I should not otherwise have ventured. 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.