Excerpt from Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois, 1885, Vol. 2 The sanitary condition of our penitentiary was never better. The increase of our water sup ly, and improvements in sewerage, closets and plumbing, has alrea y exerted a beneficial in uence on our prison population. The food, clothing and general care of the pris oners is all that can be desired. 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."