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1. Report of the Committee on the Comparative Health, Mortality, Length of Sentences, &c., of White and Colored Convicts: read before the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, November 1849, and ordered to be published

Author(s):

Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. Committee on the Comparative Health, Mortality, Length of Sentences, &c., of White and Colored Convicts.

Publication:

[Philadelphia : s.n., 1849?]

Subject(s):

Mortality
Health Status Disparities
Prisoners
Pennsylvania

2. Special orders. No. 48

Author(s):

United States. Army. Department of Texas.

Publication:

[Matagorda Island : U.S. Forces, Texas, 1864]

Subject(s):

Prisoners
Transportation
Mandatory Programs
Concentration Camps
American Civil War
Texas
United States. Army

3. General orders. No. 10

Author(s):

United States. Army. Department of the Tennessee.

Publication:

[Memphis, Tenn. : Dept. of the Tennessee, 1863]

Subject(s):

Military Personnel
Prisoners
American Civil War
United States
United States. Army

4. General orders. No. 142

Author(s):

United States. Adjutant-General's Office.

Publication:

[Washington : War Dept., Adjutant General's Office, 1862]

Subject(s):

Military Personnel
Prisoners
American Civil War
United States
United States. Army

5. General orders. No. 49

Author(s):

United States. Adjutant-General's Office.

Publication:

[Washington : War Dept., Adjutant General's Office, 1863]

Subject(s):

Military Personnel
Prisoners
American Civil War
United States
United States. Army

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. On the effects of secluded and gloomy imprisonment on individuals of the African variety of mankind, in the production of disease: read at the centennial anniversary of the American Philosophical Society, May 29th, 1843

Author(s):

Coates, Benjamin Hornor, 1797-1881

Publication:

Philadelphia : John C. Clark, printer, 1843

Subject(s):

Black or African American
Prisoners

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