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1 Richard Vaux, Brief Sketch of the Origin and History of the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia i (1872)

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BRIEF SKETCH



                  OF TAIE




       ORIGIN AND HISTORY




                  OF TILEF


STATE PENITENTIARY




                            FOR TIEF,




   EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA,


                     AT PHILADELPHIA.





    The prison, as we now know it, is as entirely an institution of modern Europe as the church,
the school and the poor-house. Words occur, connected with events and customs in the ancient
world, which we can only translate into modern language or thought by the use of the word prison;-
but the thing, as we now know it, in the shape of the county jail or the convict-prison, was then
neither known nor anticipated.-ncyc/gpndin Britantica, rvol xviii.,fage 564.




                              BY

                RICHARD VAUX,

                    PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF INSPEOTORS.








                    PHILADELPHIA:

  McLAUGHLIN BROTHEIRS, PRINTEIVI, Nos. 112 AND 114 SOUTHf THLRD STREET.


                             1872.

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