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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turnbull, Robert J. (Robert James), 1775-1833.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment.
- Criminal law--Pennsylvania.
- Criminal law.
- Prisons--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Prisons.
- Correctional institutions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Correctional institutions.
- Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv,108p.,table )
- Other Title:
- Visit to the Philadelphia prison
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : printed by Budd and Bartram, no. 58, North Second Street, 1796.
- Notes:
- "The following sheets originally made their appearance in the Charleston Daily gazette".
- "Abstracts taken from general statements of the amount of labour done by each convict, and at what occupation, in the Prison for the City and County of Philadelphia .. together with the amount of provisions, clothes, &c. furnished each convict .." (preface).
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 31321
- English Short Title Catalog, W29677.
- OCLC:
- 642788252
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