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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 account of the gradual reformation, and present improved state, of the penal laws of Pennsylvania : with observations on the impolicy and injustice of capital punishments. In a letter to a friend by Robert J. Turnbull
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turnbull, Robert James, 1775-1833.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia. Walnut street prison.
- Philadelphia.
- Criminal law--Pennsylvania--History and criticism.
- Criminal law.
- Capital punishment.
- Physical Description:
- ii, 93 p. : folded ill. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia printed ; London : Re-printed and sold by J. Phillips & son, 1797.
- Notes:
- Originally published in the Charleston daily gazette.
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