Category: History - American
This being the first number of the new series of “THE JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND PHILANTHROPY,” some reference to the action of the Society in relation to the change from a “Quarterly” to an “Annual” may be looked for here. We may, therefore, just say, that the ground up...
_Prison Society’s Visitors and Visiting._—We now come to speak of what, under all considerations, is, we believe, the most important part of the action and services of the Socie...
3. Part 3Here, also, the rudiments of education can well be imparted, and as there is nothing to distract the attention, the lessons make an impression such as is never witnessed in the...
1. Part 1This being the first number of the new series of “THE JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND PHILANTHROPY,” some reference to the action of the Society in relation to the change from...
2. Part 2_Jailor’s Fees._—In the year 1796, the sore evil and reproachful practice which existed, of the jailors exacting fees, as a condition of liberation from imprisonment, was taken...
6. Part 6In conclusion, your Committee may state that they have desired to possess themselves of such practical information as might be within their reach, and have taken some pains to d...
4. Part 4It remains for us now to bring into view the principal transactions of the last year or eighteen months, from which we think it will be evident that “The Philadelphia Society fo...
7. Part 7William Shippen, M. D., Charles Ellis, William S. Perot, Thomas Latimer, John M. Wetherill, Benj. H. Pitfield, Jacob T. Bunting, John C. Farr, William Ingram, Charles P. Perot,...