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Excerpt from The Actual State of Prison Reform Throughout the Civilized World: A Discourse Pronounced at the Opening of the International Prison, Congress of Stockholm, August 20, 1878
Russia is, evidently, waking up to the importance of preventive and reformatory institutions for the young. The first agricultural penitentiary colony for juvenile delinquents, under fourteen years of age, was organized in 1870, near St. Petersburg, by a voluntary society; but the government furnished the site, and grants an annual subsidy. Since that date, there have been organized seven or eight similar colonies, in different provinces of the empire, for the most part without aid from the government. In gene ral, these institutions find much sympathy and support from the public; but.
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