Show the annual congress meets at denver FOK MUNICIPAL REFORMS it ready for work coming DENVER colo sept 14 special the annual congress of the national prison association of the united states assembles thi evening for a four days session and several hundred philanthropists humanitarians and directors wardens and managers of penitentiaries aries and reformatory reforma toTy institutions in all parts 0 tho country ara registered at the leading hotels tiie congress will be one of the moat important in the history of tion from the number and nature of alie questions which ire to be discussed among cheso is the report of the american delegation to the internal timal congress held at paris last spring and which contains ft large number of recommendations based upon the views enunciated by some of abe eminent delegates to that gathering from england and continental countries reports of special committees on the work of prison physicians on criminal law reform on the mient gement of police forces in the large cities ad on prison discipline ci ars to be considered at length while papers on politics and crime and the ethical aspectia of crime will also ha exhaustively discussed the national prison wardens association will hold its convention coincident with the prison congre aa this afternoon there adsa i me board ot directors of the latter body at the brown palace hotel at which the pro grammo for the gathering waa finally determined upon the congress will be called to order this evening in the central presbyterian church by hon charles D hayt chief justice of the state supreme court |