State prison life
Subtitle: by one who has been there : in two parts, showing the horrors of the old system and the advantages of the new : together with a true and detailed account of the maltreatment and cruelties formerly practiced upon prisoners ...
By: written by a convict
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 90640
Publisher: C.F. Vent
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Cincinnati
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Prisoners -- Indiana -- Biography; Prisons -- Indiana
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Illustrated history and description of state prison life
Notes: "Also, shame-faced criminalities with female convicts, mutinies, murders, starvings, whippings, hair-breadth escapes, sketches and incidents, narratives and pen-pictures, sunshine and shade, illustrative of prison life."

Author from copyright statement on t.p. verso

First published in 1871 under title:  An illustrated history and description of state prison life

Sabin, 90640

Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 2000. 7 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; fiche 33179-33185)