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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, of South Carolina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turnbull, Robert J. (Robert James), 1775-1833.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--Pennsylvania.
- Prisons.
- Criminal law--Pennsylvania.
- Criminal law.
- Capital punishment.
- Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2],ii,93,[3]p. )
- Other Title:
- Visit to the Philadelphia prison
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Philadelphia printed: London: reprinted and sold by James Phillips & Son, George Yard, Lombard Street, 1797.
- Notes:
- With a final advertisement leaf.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- Goldsmiths', 17132
- English Short Title Catalog, T50963.
- OCLC:
- 642619697
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