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Observations and reflections on the design and effects of punishment : by John Sergeant, Esq. and Col. Samuel Miller, of the U.S. Marine, in letters, addressed to Roberts Vaux. Read at a meeting of the Prison Society of Philadelphia, and with the consent of the writers published by its order. Also, the opinion of the keepers of the penitentiary and Bridewell at Philadelphia, on the separate confinement of criminals.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sergeant, John, 1779-1852.
Contributor:
Miller, Samuel, 1775-1855.
Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836.
Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Punishment.
Solitary confinement.
Prisons--Pennsylvania.
Prisons.
Pennsylvania.
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 22cm
Place of Publication:
[Philadelphia] : Jesper Harding, printer, 1828.
Local Notes:
No. 5 in vol. of pamphlets with binder's title: Prison pamphlets.
OCLC:
3234325

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