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. ... |
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acting committee adopted alleviating the miseries amongst appointed Arson Assault and Battery beneficial benevolent Bigamy Buggery Burglary Cheating citizens city and county code of Pennsylvania committed Concealing the death Conspiracy county of Philadelphia criminal code death of bas debtors Disorderly bawdy houses Disorderly houses effects erection evils Females convicted following offences Forgery and Passing Fornication and Bastardy GRIFFITTS hard labour Horse stealing Howard humanity inflicting inspectors institution jail John Howard Larceny legislature males Manslaughter ment minds Misdemeanor miseries of Public Murder 2nd degree number of convicts objects Passing counterfeit money penal code penal laws penalties penitentiary system Penn Perjury persons petitioners Philadelphia Society President preventing crimes prison discipline prison keeper Public Prisons Rape Receiving stolen respect respectfully Riot Robbery sentence Society for alleviating solitary confinement spirituous liquors streets tard tent to murder tent to ravish THOMAS WISTAR tion Total unhappy untried prisoners vagrants visiting WILLIAM WHITE
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Page 2 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 13 - What a spectacle must this abode of guilt and wretchedness have presented, when in one common herd were kept, by day and by night, prisoners of all ages, colors, and sexes ! No separation was made of the most flagrant offender and convict, from the prisoner who might perhaps be falsely suspected of some trifling misdemeanor ; — none, of the old and hardened culprit, from the youthful and trembling novice in crime...
Page 1 - It should be founded on principles that are permanent, uniform, and universal ; [and always conformable to the dictates of truth and justice, the feelings of humanity, and the indelible rights of mankind...
Page 11 - ... usual attendants of prisons), involve with them, it becomes us to extend our compassion to that part of mankind who are the subjects of those miseries.
Page 2 - An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Page 15 - ... to excite neither desire nor competition on the part of persons better qualified to occupy the station. Indeed the circumstances, under which the incumbent had been long connected with criminals, caused him to be suspected of a more intimate knowledge of the depredations committed in the city, than comported with that unblemished reputation which ought to belong to such an officer. Whether justly suspected or not, certain it is, that he viewed the first interference of the members of the society...
Page 25 - The Society heartily concur with the friends of humanity in Europe, in expressing their obligations to you for having rendered the miserable tenants of prisons the objects of more general attention and compassion, and for having pointed out some of the means of not only alleviating their miseries, but of preventing those crimes and misfortunes which are the causes of them. "With sincere wishes that your useful life may be prolonged, and that you may enjoy the pleasure of seeing the success of your...
Page 25 - Should the plan take place during my life, of establishing a permanent charity under some such title as that at Philadelphia, viz : A Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, and annuities be engrafted thereupon, for the...
Page 22 - ... These convicts, distinguished by their 'infamous dress' and shaven heads, 'were brought before the public. The sport of the idle and the vicious, they often become incensed, and naturally took violent revenge upon the aggressors. To prevent them from returning injuries which might be inflicted on them, they were encumbered with iron collars and chains to which bombshells were attached, to be dragged along while they performed their degrading service, under the eyes of keepers armed with swords,...