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Notices of the original, and successive efforts, to improve the discipline of the prison at Philadelphia, and to reform the criminal code of Pennsylvania : with a few observations on the penitentiary system
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Wl*.49
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
- Crime and criminals--Pennsylvania.
- Crime and criminals.
- Prisons--Pennsylvania.
- Prisons.
- Law--Pennsylvania--Codification.
- Law.
- Prison discipline.
- Philadelphia--Correctional institutions.
- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- [3],4-76 p. : tables. ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Published by Kimber and Sharpless . I. Ashmead & Co. printers., 1826.
- Notes:
- Pages [65]-75 contain: "Tables, exhibiting the number of criminals imprisoned in the jail at Philadelphia, from the year 1787 to the beginning of the year 1825, with the offences for which they were convicted, &c."
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