An account of the alteration and present state of the penal laws of Pennsylvania
Subtitle: Containing, also, an account of the gaol and penitentiary house of Philadelphia--and the interior management thereof
By: By Caleb Lownes. ; Printed by order of the Legislature of Massachusetts
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 35748
Publisher: by Young & Minns, state printers.
Published: 1799
Place of publication: Printed at Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Correctional institutions; Criminal law; Prisons; Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Notes: Caption title: Penal laws, &c. of Pennsylvania. A brief account of the penal laws of Pennsylvania.

Written in collaboration with William Bradford, Jr. Cf. Teeters, Negley K. The cradle of the penitentiary (Philadelphia, 1955), p. 38.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E².

"Constitution of the Philadelphia Society, for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons."--p. 33-36.

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