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1. A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts: late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor prison : interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations : to which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners

Author(s):: Babcock, Amos G.
Publication:: Boston : Printed by Rowe and Hooper, 1816
Subject(s):: Physicians
Prisoners
Warfare
United States

2. 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

3. Report to enquire into the sufficiency of the legal provisions for the maintenance of untried prisoners and debtors: and report alterations and amendments with respect to the regulations affecting their condition. Mr. Gibbon, chairman

Author(s):: United States. Congress. House. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Local Causes of Cholera in the Arch Street Prison in the City of Philadelphia.
Publication:: Harrisburg [Pa.] Welsh, 1833
Subject(s):: Cholera
Prisoners
Philadelphia

4. General orders. No. 3

Author(s):: United States. Adjutant-General's Office, author.
Publication:: [Washington?] : [publisher not identified], [1864]
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Prisoners
American Civil War
United States
United States. Army.

5. General orders. No. 193

Author(s):: United States. Adjutant-General's Office, author.
Publication:: [Washington?] : [publisher not identified], [1862]
Subject(s):: Prisoners
Government Regulation
American Civil War
United States
United States. Army.

6. Report of proceedings at the third annual meeting, December 2d, 1892

Author(s):: Massachusetts Prison Association, author.
Publication:: [Cambridge?] : Harvard Printing Co., 1893
Subject(s):: Prisoners
Social Welfare
Massachusetts

7. A plea for the appropriation of criminals, condemned to capital punishment, to the experimental physiologist

Author(s):: Pyle, John S., author
Publication:: [Keokuk?] : [publisher not identified], [1893?]
Subject(s):: Prisoners
Brain -- physiology
Human Experimentation
Capital Punishment

8. Confederate view of the treatment of prisoners

Publication:: Richmond : Southern Historical Society, 1876
Subject(s):: Prisoners
Concentration Camps
Social Conditions
American Civil War

9. WBRZ-TV reports on closing of Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center

Publication:: Baton Rouge, LA : WBRZ-TV, 1990
Subject(s):: Hospitals, Chronic Disease
Leprosy
Health Facility Closure
Prisoners
Foot Orthoses
Louisiana
Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center (U.S.)

10. Letter to convicts in twenty-six state prisons, and ten houses of correction, or county penitentiaries

Author(s):: Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887
Publication:: [United States? : s.n., 1848]
Subject(s):: Prisoners
Rehabilitation
Spirituality