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 15147

Language:

English

Physical Description:

iv,108p.,table ; 8°.

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"The following sheets originally made their appearance in the Charleston Daily gazette".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).

Local Notes:

Library copy: on laid paper

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 31321