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An illustrated history and description of state prison life by one who has been there : in two parts, one showing the cruelties and horrors of the old system, the other, the reformatory advantages resulting from the new / written by a convict in a convict's cell ; the authenticity of which is vouched for by the highest officials and committees.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banka, J. H. (J. Harrie), author.
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indiana State Prison (Pendleton).
- Prisoners.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (552 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Toledo, Ohio : Published for the author, [1871]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "Together with a true and detailed account of the maltreatment and cruelties formerly practiced upon prisoners, also, shame-faced criminalities with female convicts, mutinies, murders, starvings, whippings, hair-breadth escapes, sketches and incidents, narratives and pen-pictures, sunshine and shade, illustrative of prison life."
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 937010527
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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