A visit to the Philadelphia prison
Subtitle: 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: By Robert J. Turnbull. ; [Three lines of quotations]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 31321.
Publisher: Printed by Budd and Bartram, no. 58, North Second Street.
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Walnut Street Jail (Philadelphia, Pa.); Capital punishment.; Criminal law -- Pennsylvania.; Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Correctional institutions.
Notes: "The following sheets originally made their appearance in the Charleston Daily gazette."--Preface.

Signatures: [A]℗ø B-Oþ́ P℗ø.

"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 ..."--folded leaf at end.

Evans 31321.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31321)