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Books on: 19th century prisons

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Jail Sentences: Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction

Book by Andrew Sobanet; University of Nebraska Press, 2008

Subjects:

French Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Prisons In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...maximum-security prisons, The Society of Captives...order to study the prison it must be interpreted...of the state: The prisons of the 18th and 19th centuries replaced the dungeons...perception of the prison as an institution...
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A Germ of Goodness: The California State Prison System, 1851-1944

Book by Shelley Bookspan; University of Nebraska Press, 1991

Subjects:

Prisons--California--History--19th Century, Prisons--California--History--20th Century

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...goodness: the California state prison system, 1851-1944 / Shelley...ISBN 0-8032-1216-X 1. Prisons-- California--History--19th century. 2. Prisons-- California--History--20th century. I. Title. II. Series...
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The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison

Book by Michael P. Gray; Kent State University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Chemung County (N.Y.)--History, Military--19th Century, Elmira (N.Y.)--History, Military--19th Century, New York (State)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners And Prisons, Prisoners Of War--New York (State)--Elmira--History--19th Century, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners And Prisons

Collections: History, Entire Library

...home in front of the prison gates, and his explanations...Elmira and its Civil War prison/Michael P. Gray...paper) 1. Elmira Prison (Elmira, N.Y...1861 1865 Prisoners and prisons. 3. United States History...History, Military 19th century. 5. Chemung county...
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The Late 19th Century U.S. Army, 1865-1898: A Research Guide

Book by Joseph G. Dawson III; Greenwood Press, 1990

Subjects:

United States--Army--History--19th Century--Sources--Bibliography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...conducting research on the late 19th century Army, but thousands of other reports...records of thousands of individual 19th century servicemen are also filed in the...posts, camps, hospitals, and prisons. Some of the materials in RG 393...
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Surgeons at War: Medical Arrangements for the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded in the British Army during the Late 18th and 19th Centuries

Book by Matthew H. Kaufman; Greenwood, 2001

Subjects:

Great Britain--Army--Medical Care--History--18th Century, Great Britain--Army--Medical Care--History--19th Century, Medicine, Military--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Medicine, Military--Great Britain--History--19th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...British Army, Volume 4, Part I, p. 72. 7. He had been appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1782, and inspector general of prisons in Ireland from May 1788. He was later appointed inspector of health for the Land Forces in September 1794, was retired on...

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Journal Articles on: 19th century prisons

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Working at Play: The Phenomenon of 19th Century Worker-Competitions

Journal article by C. Frank Zarnowski; Journal of Leisure Research, Vol. 36, 2004

Subjects:

Amateur sports--19th century AD, Amateur sports--History, Amateur sports--Social aspects, Amusements--19th century AD, Amusements--History, Amusements--Social aspects, Employment--19th century AD, Employment--Social aspects, Games--19th century AD, Games--History, Games--Social aspects, Recreation--19th century AD, Recreation--History, Recreation--Social aspects

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...The Phenomenon of 19th Century Worker-Competitions...Table 2). Many 19th century work-sports have...cowgirl events. Even prisons offer rodeo as...Association, and prison participants...birlers. (1) 19th century American worker...
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Pre-School Responses to the 19th-Century Youth Crisis

Journal article by Ruskin Teeter; Adolescence, Vol. 30, 1995

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High schools--History, Homeless youth--Care and treatment, Youth services--19th century

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...responses to the 19th-century youth crisis. by Ruskin Teeter The travails of 19th-century urban youth...Increasingly over the 19th century, swarms of these...numbers crowded into adult prisons. Edward Bellamy wrote...1880s. By the end of the 19th century, juvenile gangs...alcoholism, prostitution, prison, and perhaps even the...
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A Positive Reinforcement Program in a 19th Century Penal Colony

Journal article by Peter A. Lamal, Pauline Dove Lamal; Behavior and Social Issues, Vol. 17, 2008

Subjects:

Prisoners, Prisons

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Reinforcement Program in a 19th Century Penal Colony by Peter...Lamal From the late 18th Century until 1868 more than 150...Australias Founding, until the Prison Acts of 1835 and 1839...personal experience of prison life because he spent...
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The Prison Fix

Journal article by Tony Platt; Social Justice, Vol. 33, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Book)--Book reviews

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...in the late 20th century; we would have...Californias original 19th-century prisons overflowed with...book. In the last century, only a handful...book of the 21st century. Californias politicians...with the crisis in prison overcrowding by...tier of small urban prisons, not as a replacement...
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Prison Writing in 20th-Century America

Journal article by Anthony M. Platt; Social Justice, Vol. 26, 1999

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Books--Reviews

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Prison Writing in 20th-Century America by Anthony...stocks. By the 19th century, when the...however, American prisons increasingly became...criminal justice and prison life were popular...united community and prison activists, and...revealing the prisons racial dynamics...

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Magazine Articles on: 19th century prisons

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Justice Seen, Justice Done? Abolishing Public Executions in 19th-Century Germany

Magazine article by Richard Evans; History Today, Vol. 46, April 1996

Subjects:

Capital punishment--History, Executions and executioners--History, Germany--19th century, Nineteenth century--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...places earlier in the century, since this was in part...now to be held inside prisons rather than in the open...and early twentieth-century Germany - doctors, lawyers...anything the nineteenth century ever witnessed. FOR...Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Penguin, 197...
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Prison: Five Hundred Years of Life Behind Bars

Magazine article by J.A. Sharpe; History Today, Vol. 59, June 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Prison: Five Hundred Years of Life Behind Bars (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Prison: Five Hundred Years of Life Behind...about the main lines of the history of 19th- and 20th-century prisons and their inmates: thus the inputs...informed works on the history of the prison which raise some fundamental issues...
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A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff

Magazine article by Alvin J. Bronstein; Corrections Today, Vol. 65, June 2003

Subjects:

A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff. (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...directly with prisons and inmates and...correctional leaders and prison line staff. Much...moved Americas prisons away from being 19th century dungeons. Today...have put these prisons in danger of moving...time for U.S. prison officials to examine...
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A Century's Legacy: Five Critical Developments in the Evolution of American Prisons, 1900-2000

Magazine article by John W. Roberts; Corrections Today, Vol. 62, August 2000

Subjects:

Corrections--History, Prison administration--History

Collections: Entire Library

...there had been talk for centuries about segregating inmates...such as at Le Stinche Prison in Italy, the Spinhuis...United States, early prisons in Philadelphia (Walnut...and New York (Newgate Prison) segregated the most...and throughout the 19th century, there were several...adjacent to or part of male prisons). The adult reformatory...
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Renovating Historic Structures: Seismic Retrofits at Folsom and San Quentin State Prisons

Magazine article by Mike Ginoza, Rafael Ruano, Jeanne Woodford, Diana Butler; Corrections Today, Vol. 65, July 2003

Subjects:

Building renovation, Correctional institutions--Buildings and facilities, Folsom, California, Prisons--Buildings and facilities

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...San Quentin state prisons, where retrofit projects...San Quentin state prisons include some of the...Historic Constraints Both prisons date back to the 19th century and are classified...historic value of the prison. It also has been...

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Newspaper Articles on: 19th century prisons

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The Days When the Jailhouse Rocked; Misery and Terror: Before the 20th Century, Prisons Were Hell-Holes

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 25, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Terror: Before the 20th Century, Prisons Were Hell-Holes...who, until the mid-19th century, gathered for public...Prisoners in these early centuries also probably included...took place in the 16th century, from royal tournaments...Elizabeth Fry shamed the prison wardens into allowing...
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Ken Clarke Is out of Step with His Party and the Country; the Justice Secretary's Liberal Prisons Policy at a Time of Social Unrest May Hasten His Exit from the Cabinet

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 13, 2010

Subjects:

Prisons

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Justice Secretarys Liberal Prisons Policy at a Time of...that emerged from the 19th-century mob, of course, but...with his remarks about prison and sentencing. Defending...policy paper entitled Prisons with a Purpose by Cameron...sterling2.4billion prison building and maintenance...
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Prison Is 'Losing' Battle on Drugs and Bullying

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 18, 2010

Subjects:

Bullying, Prisons

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...CONCERNS: at Walton prison officers work manfully...Board singled out the prison kitchen for particularly...one of the largest prisons in Western Europe...Liverpool is a Victorian prison built in the mid 19th century and as such the main...
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BREAK FOR FREEDOM; Robben Island - Nelson Mandela's Prison - Offers an Uplifting Insight into Africa's Past, ROBERT GORE-LANGTON Reports

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 19, 2009

Subjects:

Mandela, Nelson, Prisons

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Island - Nelson Mandelas Prison - Offers an Uplifting Insight...Robben Island as a political prison for rebellious Xhosa chiefs during the 19th century. It served too as a leper...In the heart of the main prison is Mandelas cell. It was...
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BREAK FOR FREEDOM; Robben Island - Nelson Mandela's Prison - Offers an Uplifting Insight into Africa's Past, ROBERT GORE-LANGTON Reports

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 19, 2009

Subjects:

Mandela, Nelson, Prisons

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Island - Nelson Mandelas Prison - Offers an Uplifting Insight...was used as a political prison for rebellious Xhosa chiefs during the 19th century. It served too as a leper...In the heart of the main prison is Mandelas cell. It was...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 19th century prisons

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Prison

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...continued through the 19th cent., with two...the growth of the prison population appeared...federal and state prisons, only a 4.6...The chief types of prisons in the United States...rapid increase in prison population has led...contractors operate prisons. These private...by the end of the century. Some of these...
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Atlanta

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...widely known U.S. federal prisons. The citys numerous parks are...of Confederate figures and a 19th-century plantation, reminiscent of...and expositions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries drew attention to the citys...
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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in letters to a friend. In the Moscow prisons he was for the first time confronted...recovered). After completing (1953) his prison sentence, he was exiled to the Kazakh...was hailed as a successor to Russias 19th-century literary giants. In the USSR his works...
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Racquets

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...most dangerous games. It originated in 18th-century England, probably in debtors prisons, but was soon adopted by the wealthier classes...was introduced into the United States in the 19th cent. by way of Canada. The United States Racquets...
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Brazil

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...great sugar culture that for centuries dominated Brazil. The Northeast...Brazil the states that in the 19th and 20th cent. received the...ended. Brazil in the Twentieth Century The creation of rubber plantations...including corruption in the prisons and lawlessness among the police...

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