Philadelphia Society For Alleviating The Miseries Of Public Prisons

Sketch of the Principal Transactions of the "Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons,"

• Author(s): Pennsylvania Prison Society

• Categories: Prisons

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1859
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Deviant Prison

• Author(s): Ashley T. Rubin

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2021-02-04
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• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.

Hearing on the Bill (H. R. 14798) to Establish a Laboratory for the Study of the Criminal, Pauper, and Defective Classes

• Author(s): Arthur MacDonald, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary

• Categories: Alcoholism

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1902
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• Publisher: Unknown

Hearing is followed by "Bibliography of genius, insanity, idiocy, feeblemindedness, alcoholism, pauperism, and crime" reprinted from "Abnormal Man", Circular of Information No. 4, Bureau of Education (p. 139-304).

Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy

• Categories: Charities

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1889
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Abnormal Man, Being Essays on Education and Crime and Related Subjects

• Author(s): Arthur MacDonald

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1893
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• Publisher: Unknown

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