The decisive decade in the history of the Elmira Reformatory (1867-1877)
Subtitle: instituting a reformatory system of prison discipline
By: William G. Hinkle and William J. Hartley ; with a foreword by Johnny Jackson
Contributors: Hartley, William J.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773425798
Subjects: Criminals; Prisons; New York State Reformatory (Elmira, N.Y.); Reformatories; Rehabilitation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Edward Livingston and the case for a reformatory system of prison discipline; title: 1867 survey of prisons and reformatories of the United States; title: Zebulon Brockway : an inovator in penology; title: Transactions of the national congresson penitentiary and reformatory prison discipline : adult offenders; title: Transactions of the National Congress on penitentiary and reformatory prison discipline : juvenile offenders(1870); title: Transactions of the National Congress on penitentiary and reformatory prison discipline : post-proceedings and discussions; title: Nineteenth-century thought on reform and the work of Charles Loring Brace; title: Preventable causes of crime; title: The establishment of the Elmira Reformatory (1867to1870); title: The first building commission (April 26,1870 to April 3,1872); title: The third building commission (May 29,1873 to May 5,1874); title: Appendix.