Notices of the original, and successive efforts, to improve the discipline of the prison at Philadelphia, and to reform the criminal code of Pennsylvania
Subtitle: with a few observations on the penitentiary system
By: by Roberts Vaux
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 5267
Publisher: Published by Kimber and Sharpless
Published: 1826
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons; Crime -- Pennsylvania; Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Law -- Pennsylvania -- Codification; Prison discipline
Notes: 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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Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1991. 1 microfiche : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 5267)