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Title: The Pennsylvanian system of prison discipline triumphant in France.
Author: George Sumner
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains...


A history of the Pennsylvania System of prison reform, which emphasized solitary confinement and hard labor as a means of rehabilitation. The book also examines the influence of this system on the development of prisons in France, which adopted many of its principles in the...