NLM Digital Collections

Search

Start Over Subjects Prisoners ✖Remove constraint Subjects: Prisoners Dates by Range 1800-1849 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1800-1849

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

8. Extracts from the second report of William Crawford and Whitworth Russell, Esqs., the Inspectors of Prisons for the Home District ; addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Department

Author(s):
Crawford, William, 1788-1847
Publication:
Philadelphia : Republished by the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1838
Subject(s):
Prisons -- standards
Prisoners
Privacy
United Kingdom
United States

Refine by:

more »

more »

more »

more »

Current results range from 1808 to 1849