| Author | Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836.
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| Title | Notices of the original, and successive efforts, to improve the discipline of the prison at Philadelphia, and to reform the criminal code of Pennsylvania: with a few observations on the penitentiary system. ...
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| Published | Philadelphia: Published by Kimber and Sharpless ... I. Ashmead & Co. printers. 1826.
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| Description | [3],4-76 p. tables. 21 cm.
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| General Note | Pages [65]-75 contain: "Tables, exhibiting the number of criminals imprisoned in the jail at Philadelphia, from the year 1787 to the beginning of the year 1825, with the offences for which they were convicted, &c."
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| Subjects | Crime and criminals -- Pennsylvania.
Law -- Pennsylvania -- Codification.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Correctional institutions.
Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
Prison discipline.
Prisons -- Pennsylvania.
Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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| LC Card Number | 11-2651 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: B 1015, no. 3
mq158889: Local class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 95690] |
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