The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (Vol. IV, No. II, April 1849) |
CONSTITUTION OF THE " Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons ." APRIL, 1849. VOL IV. NO. II. NOTICES.
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THE
PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL
OF
PRISON DISCIPLINE
AND
PHILANTHROPY.
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF “THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR ALLEVIATING
THE MISERIES OF PUBLIC PRISONS,” INSTITUTED 1787.
VOL. IV.—NO. II.
APRIL 1849.
PHILADELPHIA:
E. C. AND J. BIDDLE,
SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FIFTH AND MINOR STREETS.
CONTENTS OF NO. II. | Art. I.— | Houses of Refuge, | 49 | | II.— | Mortality and Crime, | 63 | | III.— | State Penitentiaries, | 70 | | NOTICES. | | No. 1.— | Institutions for the Insane, | 79 | | 2.— | The precise present character of transportation explained, with suggestions by Ignotus, | 86 | | 3.— | Statistics of Truantry and of Juvenile Vagrancy in the City of Boston, | 88 | | 4.— | The London Christian Observer’s notice of Rev. Mr. Field’s work on the Advantages of the Separate System of Imprisonment, | 92 | | 5.— | Kentucky State Penitentiary, | 93 | | 6.— | An Inquiry into the Alleged Tendency of the Separation of Convicts,
one from the other, to Produce Disease and Derangement, | 94 | | 7.— | New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, | 95 | | 8.— | Shelter for Colored Orphans, | 95 | | 9.— | Paupers and Prisoners in Cincinnati, | 95 | | 10.— | Insane Asylum in North Carolina, | 95 | | 11.— | Corrupt Police, | 96 |
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