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Prisons and prisoners by Joseph Adshead
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks J .1796
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adshead, Joseph, 1800-1861.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons.
- Physical Description:
- [iii]-xvii, [13]-320 p. : ill., 2 plates (1 folded) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Longmans, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1845.
- Contents:
- The fallacies of the Times
- The fictions of Dickens upon solitary confinement
- Remarks on the Boston prison discipline society's reports
- Prison enormities
- Millbank penitentiary
- Model prison
- Continental prison reform
- Postscript.
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