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• Letter from Edward Livingston, Esq. to Roberts Vaux : on the advantages of the Pennsylvania system of prison discipline, for the application of which the new penitentiary has been constructed near Philadelphia, &c. &c. (Jesper Harding, printer, 1828), by Edward Livingston and Roberts Vaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. ... (Published by Kimber and Sharpless ..., 1826), by Roberts Vaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act incorporating the House of Refuge and laws relative thereto, together with the rules and regulations for its government, and list of officers, manager, &c. (J. Harding, 1829), by Pa.) House of Refuge (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• New views of penitentiary discipline, and moral education and reform. (William Brown, printer., 1829), by Charles Caldwell and William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Helping find innovative and cost-effective solutions to overburdened state criminal courts : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, May 3, 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Defence of Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliot, of the United States navy (Published by Mifflin & Parry, 1840), by Jesse D. Elliott, George Mifflin Dallas, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), and United States. Navy. Court-martial (Eliott : 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the attorney general on the investigation of the magisterial system. ([Harrisburg, 1965), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Justice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An address delivered before the citizens of Philadelphia, at the House of Refuge, on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of November, 1828. By John Sergeant, president of the institution. (Jesper Harding, printer., 1828), by John Sergeant and Jesper Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act incorporating the House of Refuge and laws relative thereto, together with the rules and regulations for its government, and list of officers, manager, &c. (J. Harding, 1829), by Pa.) House of Refuge (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered before the citizens of Philadelphia at the House of Refuge on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of November, 1828 (Jesper Harding, printer, 1828), by John Sergeant, Jesper Harding, and Pa.) House of Refuge (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Annual report . (Philadelphia, Pa., between 1000 and 1999), by Philadelphia County (Pa.). Prison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the Inspectors of the Philadelphia County Prison, made to the Legislature. (J.M.G. Lescure ..., 1848), by Pa.). Board of Inspectors Philadelphia County Prison (Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Board of Inspectors of the Philadelphia County Prison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the inspectors ([Pittsburgh, Pa.], 1839), by State Penitentiary for the Western District of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the inspectors. (Philadelphia, 1831), by State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual reports (Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1883), by Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)

• Criminal victimization surveys in Pittsburgh. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service :, 1977), by United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• The legal foundations of the jurisdiction, powers, organization and procedure of the courts of Pennsylvania in their handling of cases of juvenile offenders and of dependent and neglected children ... November 15, 1926. (Children's commission of Pennsylvania, 1926), by Pennsylvania. Commission to study and revise the statutes relating to children (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legislative Reference Bureau (W. S. Ray, state printer, 1916), by Pennsylvania, S. Edward Hannestad, S. Edward Hannestad, John H. Fertig, and Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Reference Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beitler and Davis acts relating to children (Juvenile court, 1911), by Abraham Merklee Beitler, S. B. Davis, and Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)

• What is Allegheny County doing for her children : report of the Juvenile Court, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1902-1905. (Juvenile Court of Allegheny County?, 1905), by Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Allegheny County). Juvenile Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the juvenile court of Allegheny County and the juvenile detention home. ([Philadephia?], 1931), by Leon Stern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Juvenile Court of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) Pennsylvania : report of a study (The Association, 1927), by National Probation Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Behavior problems of public school children in Allentown. (The Pennsylvania committee on penal affairs of the Public charities association, 1932), by Leon Stern, Ada L. Barnhurst, Ina D. Eddingfield, and Curtis A. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pennsylvania juvenile court dispositions. (Pennsylvania Dept. of Justice, Governor's Justice Commission, Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics, in the 20th century), by Pennsylvania. Juvenile Court Judges' Commission, Pennsylvania Criminal Information System, and Pennsylvania. Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Annual report of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia. ([publisher not identified], 1914), by Philadelphia (Pa.). County Court and Philadelphia (Pa.). Municipal Court (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minor courts in Pennsylvania; a study of the justices of the peace and aldermen (Institute of Public Administration, Pennsylvania State University, 1962), by Pennsylvania Bar Association. Committee on Minor Judiciary, David L. Cowell, John Henry Ferguson, and Pennsylvania State University. Institute of Public Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survey of the minor judiciary in Pennsylvania; a study of the justices of the peace and aldermen, conducted by the Committee on minor judiciary of the Pennsylvania bar association, with the co-operation of the Institute of local government of the Pennsylvania state college ... (The Pennsylvania municipal publications service, 1942), by Pennsylvania Bar Association. Committee on Minor Judiciary and Pennsylvania State College. Institute of Local Government (page images at HathiTrust)
• Powers and duties of magistrates in criminal cases. (Philadelphia, 1913), by Samuel P. Rotan and J. M. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Justice; office, duties, jurisdiction and procedure, justices of the peace, magistrates and aldermen in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. (G. T. Bisel Co., 1950), by John Binns and Ross Henry Pentz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Binns's justice, or magistrate's daily companion : a treatise on the office and duties of justices of the peace, magistrates and aldermen in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including all the required forms of process and docket-entries : and embodying not only whatever may be deemed valuable to justices of the peace, but to landlords, tenants and general agents, and making this volume what it purports to be, a safe legal guide for business men (George T. Bisel, 1928), by John Binns and William C. Pentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• District attorneys, magistrates and coroners in Pennsylvania. (Bisel, 1940), by Frederick Brandon Smillie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Elmwood Home for Boys, Erie Pennsylvania (New York, 1938), by National Probation and Parole Association and Helen DuMaresque Pigeon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A defence of the system of solitary confinement of prisoners adopted by the state of Pennsylvania : with remarks on the origin, progress and extension of this species of prison discipline (Philadelphia : Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1833., 1833), by George W. Smith, E. G. Dorsey, and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assn., 1912), by Alexander Berkman
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• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (second edition; New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assn., 1920), by Alexander Berkman
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• Letters on the comparative merits of the Pennsylvania and New York systems of penitentiary discipline (Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1836), by Massachusetts man (page images at HathiTrust)

• Doing time : a study of prison conditions at U.S. penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : a report of the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. (The Commission, 1983), by United States Commission on Civil Rights. Pennsylvania Advisory Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Employment and compensation of prisoners in Pennsylvania. (W. S. Ray, state printer, 1915), by Pennsylvania. Penal commission, Edwin M. Abbott, and Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Joint Special Committee of the Legislature of Pennsylvania on contract convict labor : with accompanying testimony, January 16, 1878. (L. S. Hart, State Printer, 1878), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Community service center recidivism evaluation (The Office, 1976), by Pennsylvania. Office of the Budget. Division of Planning and Program Evaluation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An account of Julia Moore : a penitent female, who died in the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, in the year 1843. (Female Prison Association of Friends in Philadelphia, 1844), by Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania and Female Prison Association of Friends in Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laws and regulations of the American Medical Association, with a short account of the educational and benevolent institutions of Philadelphia. (Collins, 1855), by American Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the committee appointed by the Board of Guardians of the Poor of the city and districts of Philadelphia, to visit the cities of Baltimore, New York, Providence, Boston and Salem (Printed by Samuel Parker, 1827), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philadelphia public school survey... vol. I-IV. (Philadelphia, Pa., 1937), by Philadelphia Board of Public Education and George A. Works (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A sermon on education. Wherein some account is given of the academy, established in the city of Philadelphia. : Preach'd at the opening thereof, on the seventh day of January, 1750-1. / By the Reverend Mr. Richard Peters. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the Post-Office., MDCCLI. [1751]), by Richard Peters, Benjamin Franklin, and Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Charters, statutes and by-laws of the University of Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia, 1826), by University of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• University of Pennsylvania (illustrated) (Houston Club Store, University of Pennsylvania, 1924), by George Erazmus Nitzsche and University of Pennsylvania. Houston Club Store (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses at the inauguration of William Pepper, M.D. as provost of the University of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1881. (Collins, Printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1881), by William Pepper, Edmund J. James, Charles P. Krauth, Henry M. Hoyt, and George Dana Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
• University of Pennsylvania (Collins, printer, 1872), by Edmund J. James and University of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• The University of Pennsylvania. (The Press of the University of Pennsylvania, 1922), by Edgar Fahs Smith, Josiah Harmar Penniman, and John C. Bell (page images at HathiTrust)

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