The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, 1845, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, 1845, Vol. 1: Published Under the Direction of "the Philadelphia Society for the Alleviation of the Miseries of Public Prisons"We have mentioned that the Eastern Penitentiary was sur rendered to the Inspectors in 1829. The following year (april 3, 1830) an act was past directing sundry alterations in the plan of the Western Penitentiary, so as to admit of labour in separate cells, and in 1832 an appropriation was made, by Act of Assembly, for the purpose of taking down the cells, which had been erected with a view to unemployed labour, and build ing 184 cells suitable for separate labour, as practised at the Eastern Penitentiary. Here was another deliberate, distinct, and definite expression of public sentiment in favour of separate or solitary labour.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.