A visit to the Philadelphia prison : being an accurate account of the wise and humane administration adopted in every part of that buiilding; 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 /

A visit to the Philadelphia prison : being an accurate account of the wise and humane administration adopted in every part of that buiilding; 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 /

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Author / Creator:Turnbull, Robert J. (Robert James), 1775-1833
Imprint:[London] : J. Phillips, 1797.
Description:1 p. l., ii, 93 p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; 17132.
Making of the modern economy
Subject:
Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Prisons -- Pennsylvania.
Criminal law -- Pennsylvania.
Capital punishment.
Capital punishment.
Criminal law.
Prisons.
Pennsylvania.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5983418
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Notes:Originally published in the Charleston daily gazette.--NUC pre-1956.
Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.

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