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.

  • Turnbull, Robert J. (Robert James), 1775-1833.
Date:
1797
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE PHILADELPHIA PRISON; f ■ ' ■ ‘ V> Being an accurate and particular Account Of the Wife and Humane Adminiflration Adopted in every Part of that Building 5 CONTAINING ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF THE GRADUAL REFORMATION, AND PRESENT IMPROVED STATE, O F T H E PENAL LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA: WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE IMPOLICY and INJUSTICE o f CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS. In a Letter to a Friend. By ROBERT J. TURNBULL, OF SOUTH CAROLINA. —mu ^ Vitiorum femina—-otium—labore exhaurlendum,’* PHILADELPHIA: printed. EontJon: RE-PRINTED AND SOLD ET JAMES PHILLIPS tsf SON, GEORGE YARD, LOMBARD STREET,