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.

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Main Author

Turnbull, Robert J. (Robert James), 1775-1833.

Language(s)

English

Published

Philadelphia ; Re-printed and sold by J. Phillips & Son, 1797.

Subjects

Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Capital punishment.
Criminal law > Criminal law / Pennsylvania > Criminal law / Pennsylvania / History.

Note

Originally published in the Charleston daily gazette

Physical Description

1 prelim. leaf, ii, 93 p. : fold. tab. ; 22 cm

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