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1. 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

2. Reply to two letters of William Roscoe, esquire, of Liverpool, on the penitentiary system of Pennsylvania

Author(s):: Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836
Publication:: Philadelphia : Jesper Harding, printer, 1827
Subject(s):: Prisons
Punishment -- psychology
Pennsylvania

3. Report of the committee appointed by the Board of Directors of the Maryland Penitentiary to visit the penitentiaries and prisons in the city of Philadelphia and state of New York

Author(s):: Maryland Penitentiary.
Publication:: Baltimore : Printed by Lucas & Deaver, 1828
Subject(s):: Prisons
Social Welfare
Maryland
Philadelphia
New York

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. Report of the directors of the Maryland Penitentiary: made to the executive, and communicated by His Excellency, Govenor Kent, to the legislature, at December session, 1828

Author(s):: Maryland Penitentiary. Board of Directors.
Publication:: Baltimore : Printed at the office of Niles' Register, 1829
Subject(s):: Prisons
Social Welfare
Maryland

6. Solitary confinement

Publication:: [Philadelphia? : s.n., 1829]
Subject(s):: Prisons
Punishment -- psychology
New York

7. 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

8. 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

9. Observations and reflections on the design and effects of punishment

Author(s):: Sergeant, John, 1779-1852
Publication:: [Philadelphia] : Jesper Harding, printer, 1827
Subject(s):: Prisons
Punishment
Philadelphia

10. 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