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Observations on the penitentiary system and penal code of Pennsylvania, with suggestions for their improvement / by James Mease.
James MeaseDate: 1828
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Rapport fait au conseil spécial des prisons de Paris, sur la fourniture du pain pour les prisons, pendant l'année 1820, dont la boulangerie générale des hôpitaux et hospices est restée chargée.
Date: [1820?]
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An angel releases the apostle Peter from prison. Engraving by P. Frasmondi after M. Orsi after F. Zucchero.
Zucchero, F.Reference: 24875i
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Broadmoor.
Date: 2014
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A history of penal methods : criminals, witches, lunatics / by George Ives.
Ives, GeorgeDate: 1914
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Parade of the dead : a U.S. Army physician's memoir of imprisonment by the Japanese, 1942-1945 / by John R. Bumgarner ; illustrations by Doris B. Hayes.
Bumgarner, John R. (John Reed)Date: [1995], ©1995
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A visit to the Philadelphia prison; being an accurate and particular account of the wise and humane administration adopted in every part of that building; containing also an account of the gradual reformation, and present improved state of the penal laws of Pennsylvania: with observations on the impolicy and injustice of capital punishments ... In a letter to a friend / By Robert J. Turnbull.
Robert James TurnbullDate: 1797
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Journal d'observations sur les principaux hôpitaux et sur quelques prisons d'Angleterre (1787) / Jacques Tenon ; [édition présentée et annotée par Jacques Carré].
Jacques-René TenonDate: [1992], ©1992
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L'Etat des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force en Europe au XVIIIe siècle / John Howard ; traduction nouvelle et édition critique par Christian Carlier et Jacques-Guy Petit.
John HowardDate: 1994
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The guards in charge of a prisoner chained to the wall are talking to him. Engraving by A.L. Romanet after P.J. Loutherbourg.
Philip James de LoutherbourgReference: 37838i
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The promise of punishment : prisons in nineteenth-century France / Patricia O'Brien.
O'Brien, Patricia Ruth, 1946-Date: [1982], ©1982
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Tenacious : art & writings by women in prison. Issue 31, Spring 2014.
Date: 2014
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Development of the Prison Medical Service, 1774-1895 / Anne Hardy.
Hardy, AnneDate: 1995
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Middlesex House of Correction: plan showing the cells, courtyards, colonnades, and dayrooms. Engraving 1821.
Sibley, Robert, active 1828Date: [1821]Reference: 585001i
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Conscience and convenience : the asylum and its alternatives in progressive America / David J. Rothman.
David RothmanDate: [1980], ©1980
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Of bridles and burnings : the punishment of women / E.J. Burford and Sandra Shulman.
Ephraim John BurfordDate: 1992
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Victorian prison lives : English prison biography, 1830-1914 / [edited by] Philip Priestley.
Date: 1985
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Prisons and hospitals / Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor in chief ; contributors, William H. Taft [and others].
Date: 1957
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Reports from select committees and from physicians on the state of the General Penitentiary at Millbank, with minutes of evidence and appendices, 1823-24.
Date: 1970
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Notes on a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England, in company with Elizabeth Fry : with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline / By Joseph John Gurney.
Joseph John GurneyDate: 1819
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Remarks on prisons / By Stevenson MacGill.
Stevenson MacgillDate: 1810
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London and the River Thames seen from the south, from Westminster to Greenwich. Wood engraving by F. J. Smyth, 1845.
Date: 11 January 1845Reference: 40426i
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Insiders : women's experience of prison / Una Padel and Prue Stevenson.
Una PadelDate: 1988
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A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26031i
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A maniacal man is visited in prison by his children, all ruined through his drinking habit. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1847Reference: 25972i

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Observations on the penitentiary system and penal code of Pennsylvania, with suggestions for their improvement / by James Mease.

Rapport fait au conseil spécial des prisons de Paris, sur la fourniture du pain pour les prisons, pendant l'année 1820, dont la boulangerie générale des hôpitaux et hospices est restée chargée.

An angel releases the apostle Peter from prison. Engraving by P. Frasmondi after M. Orsi after F. Zucchero.

Broadmoor.

A history of penal methods : criminals, witches, lunatics / by George Ives.

Parade of the dead : a U.S. Army physician's memoir of imprisonment by the Japanese, 1942-1945 / by John R. Bumgarner ; illustrations by Doris B. Hayes.

Journal d'observations sur les principaux hôpitaux et sur quelques prisons d'Angleterre (1787) / Jacques Tenon ; [édition présentée et annotée par Jacques Carré].

L'Etat des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force en Europe au XVIIIe siècle / John Howard ; traduction nouvelle et édition critique par Christian Carlier et Jacques-Guy Petit.

The guards in charge of a prisoner chained to the wall are talking to him. Engraving by A.L. Romanet after P.J. Loutherbourg.

The promise of punishment : prisons in nineteenth-century France / Patricia O'Brien.

Tenacious : art & writings by women in prison. Issue 31, Spring 2014.

Development of the Prison Medical Service, 1774-1895 / Anne Hardy.

Middlesex House of Correction: plan showing the cells, courtyards, colonnades, and dayrooms. Engraving 1821.

Conscience and convenience : the asylum and its alternatives in progressive America / David J. Rothman.

Of bridles and burnings : the punishment of women / E.J. Burford and Sandra Shulman.

Victorian prison lives : English prison biography, 1830-1914 / [edited by] Philip Priestley.

Prisons and hospitals / Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor in chief ; contributors, William H. Taft [and others].

Reports from select committees and from physicians on the state of the General Penitentiary at Millbank, with minutes of evidence and appendices, 1823-24.

Notes on a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England, in company with Elizabeth Fry : with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline / By Joseph John Gurney.

Remarks on prisons / By Stevenson MacGill.

London and the River Thames seen from the south, from Westminster to Greenwich. Wood engraving by F. J. Smyth, 1845.

Insiders : women's experience of prison / Una Padel and Prue Stevenson.

A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

A maniacal man is visited in prison by his children, all ruined through his drinking habit. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.