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Report of the Commissioners on the penal code : Read in the Senate, January 4, 1828

Published 1828

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Prison discipline Penn....”

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Letter from Samuel R. Wood, to Thomas Kittera, chairman of a Joint Committee of Councils, on the subject of the sale of the Walnut-Street Prison : with some observations on the nec...

Author: Wood, Samuel R.
Published 1831

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)...”

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Summary of the labors of William J. Mullen, the prisoner's friend for the past 30 years : wherein it is shown that Mr. Mullen has been instrumental in procuring a release from pris...

Published 1880

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons Biography....”

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State prisons, hospitals, soldiers' homes and orphan schools controlled by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : embracing their history, finances and the laws by which they are gover...

Published 1897

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Prisons Penn....”

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Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835

Author: Meranze, Michael.
Published 1996

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Prisons Penn. Philadelphia History....”

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Doing life : reflections of men and women serving life sentences

Author: Zehr, Howard.
Published 1996

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Prisoners Penn. Interviews....”

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Brief sketch of the origin and history of the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia

Author: Vaux, Richard, 1816-1895.
Published 1872

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Prisons Penn. Philadelphia History 19th century....”

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Memorial tribute to Rev. Elias R. Beadle, D.D., LL. D. : late member of the Acting Committee of "The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons."

Author: Chandler, Joseph Ripley, 1792-1880.
Published 1879

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. Acting Committee Biography....”

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Acts of Assembly relating to the Eastern State Penitentiary : as regards establishment, treatment of prisoners, management, insane convicts, convict labor, Board of Public Charitie...

Published 1904

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Prisons Penn. Philadelphia Rules and practice....”

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Roberts Vaux

Published 1846

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons Biography....”

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Notice of the Right Reverend William White, D.D. : one of the founders of the Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

Published 1846

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons Biography....”

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Warden Cassidy on prisons and convicts : remarks from observation and experience gained during thirty-seven years continuous service in the administration of the Eastern State Peni...

Author: Cassidy, Micheal John.
Published 1897

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Prison administration Penn....”

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They were in prison; a history of the Pennsylvania prison society, 1787-1937, formerly the Philadelphia society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons

Author: Teeters, Negley K. 1896-1971.
Published 1937

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Pennsylvania Prison Society History....”

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A visit to the Philadelphia Prison : being an accurate and particular account of the wise and humane administration adopted in every part of that building : containing also an acco...

Author: Turnbull, Robert J. 1775-1833.
Published 1796

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Walnut Street Prison....”

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Runaway servants, convicts, and apprentices advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, 1728-1796

Author: Grubb, Farley Ward, 1954-
Published 1992

Record Source: Published Materials

Subjects and Genres: '; “...Prisoners Penn. Registers....”

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