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. ...
Series: 19th-century legal treatises -- no. 58039; Making of modern law
Publisher: Published by Kimber and Sharpless ...
Published: 1826
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Crime; Prisons; Law; Codification; Prison discipline; Correctional institutions; Criminals; Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
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."