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• Des prisons de Philadelphie. (Chez J. van Gulik, et W. Holtrop, 1799), by François-Alexandre-Frédéric La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Howards practisches System auf die Gefängnisse in Philadelphia angewandt, zum Besten der Menschheit und als Beyspiel für andere Staaten. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt. (bey Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1797), by John Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of the prison at Philadelphia : chiefly extracted from a late American publication. (Printed by W. & S. Graves, 1816), by James Mease (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry how far the punishment of death is necessary in Pennsylvania. With notes and illustrations. / By William Bradford, Esq. ; To which is added, an account of the gaol and penitentiary house of Philadelphia, and of the interior management thereof. by Caleb Lownes, of Philadelphia. ; [Three lines from Montesque] (Philadelphia: : Printed by T. Dobson at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street., M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]), by William Bradford and Caleb. Account of the alteration and present state of the penal laws of Pennsylvania .. Lownes (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The behavior-problem boy, a socio-educational survey . .. (Philadelphia, 1929), by Albert A. Owens (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Annual report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities. (Harrisburg, 1870), by Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities and Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities. Committee on Lunacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the laws relating to the Board of public charities of Pennslyvania and to the various subjects within its jurisdiction with the rules and regulations of the Committee on lunacy (C. E. Aughinbaugh, 1910), by Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities and Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook for the board of trustees of state institutions within the Department of welfare. (Harrisburg, 1930), by Pennsylvania. Department of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commission on penal institutions. ([Harrisburg?, 1931), by Pennsylvania. Commission on penal institutions and William Cloud Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The parole of adults from state penal institutions in Pennsylvania and in other commonwealths ... (Philadelphia, 1927), by Clair Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the penitentiary system in the United States : and its application in France; with an appendix on penal colonies, and also, statistical notes (Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833), by Gustave de Beaumont, Francis Lieber, and Alexis de Tocqueville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of penology in Pennsylvania; a study in American social history (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1927), by Harry Elmer Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter on the penitentiary system of Pennsylvania. (Printed by J. Harding, 1827), by Roberts Vaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decades of welfare in four years! ([Harrisburg, 1938), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and methods in dealing with offenders : [a manual for Pennsylvania correctional and penal workers] (Pennsylvania municipal publications service, 1944), by Helen Du Maresque Pigeon, Pennsylvania State College. Institute of Local Government, Fels Institute of Local and State Government, and Pennsylvania. Public Service Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison report. : A review of the four-year period, 1931-34 inclusive, in the penal and correctional institutions of the commonwealth-and a discussion of objectives. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Welfare. Alice F. Liveright, Secretary. ([Harrisburg, 1935), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report. (Redgrave Information Resources Corporation, 1870), by Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities and Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities. Committee on Lunacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• State prisons, hospitals, soldiers' homes and orphan schools controlled by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : embracing their history, finances and the laws by which they are governed (Clarence M. Busch, State Printer, 1897), by Pennsylvania. Office of the Auditor General, Alexander K. Pedrick, and Amos H. Mylin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The court and correctional system of the state of Pennsylvania, with a directory of judges and probation officers, parole officers and penal officials, state epartments, state-wide agencies and institutions for custodial and protective care. (Pennsylvania Committee on Penal Affairs of the Public Charities Association, 1936), by Inc Pennsylvania Committee on Penal Affairs and Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report ... 1865. (Singerly & Myers, 1865), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint committee upon the condition of prisons and almshouses (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Systematic report of the correctional institutions throughout the Commonwealth together with accomplishments and objectives of the Bureau ([Harrisburg] : [publisher not identified], 1954), by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Correction (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Documents officiels sur le pénitencier de l'Est, ou de Cherry-Hill, à Philadelphie, aux États-Unis d'Amérique : extraits des rapports annuels lus au Sénat et à la Chambre des Représentants de l'état de Pennsylvanie, depuis l'ouverture du pénitencier, en 1829, jusqu'au 8 mars 1843 (E. Marc-Aurel, 1844), by Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, L.-M. Moreau-Christophe, and Pennsylvania. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ([Press of Allen, Lane and Scott], 1919), by Pennsylvania. Commission to Investigate Penal Systems and Fletcher W. Stites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on punishments and prison discipline: (Printed by J. Clarke, 1828), by Pennsylvania. Commission to Revise the Criminal Code and Charles Shaler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the county jails in Pennsylvania : Issued as a prologue to no. 59 of the Journal of prison discipline and philanthropy, May, 1920. (Pennsylvania prison society, 1920), by Albert Hiatt Votaw and Pennsylvania Prison Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Pennsylvanian system of prison discipline triumphant in France. (Printed by I. Ashmead, 1847), by George Sumner and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania system of separate confinement explained and defended. (Chandler, 1867), by Pennsylvania Prison Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biennial report. (Redgrave Information Resources Corp., 1921), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gefengnis-erinerungen fun an anarchist (M.E. Fitzgerald, 1920), by Alexander Berkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the county jails in Pennsylvania; official report, issued as a prologue to No. 59 of the Journal of prison discipline and philanthropy. (Pennsylvania Prison Society, 1920), by Albert H. Votaw and Pennsylvania Prison Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report ... (Bedford Springs, Pa., 1916), by Pennsylvania Bar Association. Special Committee on Revision and Amendment of the Penal Laws (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 visiting inspectors and prison agent, including Annual report to the Prison Society. (Philadelphia., 1855), by Philadelphia County Prison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and prison. Crime and prison economy : extract from the report of the Board of public charities of the state of Pennsylvania for 1872. (B. Singerly, 1872), by Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biennial report. (Harrisburg., 1921), by Pennsylvania. Department of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the penal system of Pennsylvania, particularly with reference to county prisons. (Printed for the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1855), by William Parker Foulke and Pennsylvania Prison Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The court and correctional system of the state of Pennsylvania, with a directory of judges and probation officers ... (Penal Affairs Division of the Pennsylvania Citizens Association for Health and Welfare, 1952) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Penal institutions, probation, and parole; a report. ([Harrisburg], 1963), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Task Force on Eastern and Western Correctional Institutions. Advisory Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Devers Committee follow-up report. (The Committee, 1954), by Pennsylvania. Committee to Investigate the Peno-Correctional System and Jacob L. Devers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bezwaren tegen het stelsel van afzondering der gevangenen, getoetst aan de ervaring, in de Pennsylvanische staatsgevangenis van het oosten verkregen : eene voorlezing, op de algemeene vergadering van het Nederlandsch genootschap, tot zedelijke verbetering der gevangenen, gehouden te Amsterdam, den 8sten mei 1845; (s.n., 1845), by C.F. Lurasco (page images at HathiTrust)

• The county prison of Allegheny county, with an analysis of detention and prison farm plans. ([Philadelphia?, 1930), by Leon Thomas Stern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• The county prisons of Pennsylvania. (Pennsylvania Prison Society, 1914), by Albert H. Votaw (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)

• 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)

• The Pennsylvanian system of prison discipline triumphant in France. (Printed by I. Ashmead, 1847), by George Sumner and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

• Annual report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities. (Harrisburg, 1870), by Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities and Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities. Committee on Lunacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the laws relating to the Board of public charities of Pennslyvania and to the various subjects within its jurisdiction with the rules and regulations of the Committee on lunacy (C. E. Aughinbaugh, 1910), by Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities and Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook for the board of trustees of state institutions within the Department of welfare. (Harrisburg, 1930), by Pennsylvania. Department of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commission on penal institutions. ([Harrisburg?, 1931), by Pennsylvania. Commission on penal institutions and William Cloud Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decades of welfare in four years! ([Harrisburg, 1938), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison report. : A review of the four-year period, 1931-34 inclusive, in the penal and correctional institutions of the commonwealth-and a discussion of objectives. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Welfare. Alice F. Liveright, Secretary. ([Harrisburg, 1935), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report. (Redgrave Information Resources Corporation, 1870), by Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities and Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities. Committee on Lunacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biennial report of the officers of the Pennsylvania Training School. (Pennsylvania Training School Print, in the 20th century), by Pa.) Pennsylvania Training School (Morganza (page images at HathiTrust)
• The court and correctional system of the state of Pennsylvania, with a directory of judges and probation officers, parole officers and penal officials, state epartments, state-wide agencies and institutions for custodial and protective care. (Pennsylvania Committee on Penal Affairs of the Public Charities Association, 1936), by Inc Pennsylvania Committee on Penal Affairs and Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Systematic report of the correctional institutions throughout the Commonwealth together with accomplishments and objectives of the Bureau ([Harrisburg] : [publisher not identified], 1954), by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Correction (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biennial report. (Redgrave Information Resources Corp., 1921), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biennial report. (Harrisburg., 1921), by Pennsylvania. Department of Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Welfare (Harrisburg, Pa., 1932), by Pennsylvania. Department of Welfare and Pennsylvania. State Welfare Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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