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1. Bulfinch on penitentiaries: report of Charles Bulfinch on the subject of penitentiaries

Author(s):: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844
Publication:: Washington [D.C.] : Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1827
Subject(s):: Prisons
New York
Philadelphia

2. Constitution of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

Author(s):: Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1806
Subject(s):: Prisons
Social Welfare
Charities
Philadelphia

3. Document no. 3 accompanying the message of Governor Kent to the General Assembly of Maryland, transmitted to the legislature on Wednesday, January 2d, 1828

Author(s):: Maryland Penitentiary. Board of Directors.
Publication:: Annapolis : Printed by Jeremiah Hughes, 1828
Subject(s):: Prisons
Social Welfare
Maryland

4. An examination of the remarks on the report of the commissioners, appointed by the legislature of New-York, on the 12th of April, 1824, to visit the state-prisons at New-York and Auburn, and the act proposed for regulating the same

Author(s):: Allen, Stephen, 1767-1852
Publication:: New York : Printed by John C. Totten, 1826
Subject(s):: Prisons
Punishment
New York
Roscoe, William, 1753-1831.

5. The history of the tread-mill: containing an account of its origin, construction, operation, effects as it respects the health and morals of the convicts, with their treatment and diet. Also, a general view of the penitentiary system, with alterations necessary to be introduced into our criminal code, for its improvement

Author(s):: Hardie, James, 1758-1826
Publication:: New-York : Printed by Samuel Marks ..., 1824
Subject(s):: Punishment -- history
Prisoners
Prisons

6. Letters on the comparative merits of the Pennsylvania and New York systems of penitentiary discipline

Author(s):: Massachusetts man.
Publication:: Boston : Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1836
Subject(s):: Prisons
Prisoners
Social Support
Privacy
Religion
Pennsylvania
New York

7. Memoirs of Howard: compiled from his diary, his confidential letters, and other authentic documents

Author(s):: Brown, James Baldwin, 1785-1843
Publication:: Boston : Lincoln and Edmands, 1831
Subject(s):: Social Change
Prisons
England
Howard, John, 1726-1790.

8. Memorandum of a late visit to some of the principal hospitals, prisons, etc., in France, Scotland, and England. Embraced in a letter to the acting committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

Author(s):: Packard, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolphus), 1794-1867
Publication:: Philadelphia : E. G. Dorsey, 1840
Subject(s):: Prisons

9. Message from the president of the United States, transmitting the annual report of the inspectors of the Penitentiary in the District of Columbia, February 1, 1830

Author(s):: United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson)
Publication:: [Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1830]
Subject(s):: Prisons
District of Columbia
Penitentiary in the District of Columbia.

10. Notices of the original, and successive efforts, to improve the discipline of the prison at Philadelphia, and to reform the criminal code of Pennsylvania, with a few observations on the penitentiary system

Author(s):: Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836
Publication:: Philadelphia : Published by Kimber and Sharpless, 1826
Subject(s):: Prisons
Punishment
Philadelphia