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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50563485 Title: The rise of the penitentiary : prisons and punishment in early America Author: Adam Jay Hirsch Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 2002, ©1992. ISBN/ISSN: 0300042973 9780300042979 OCLC:50563485

  
  

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The rise of the penitentiary : prisons and punishment in early America

Author:	Adam Jay Hirsch
Publisher:	Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 2002, ©1992.
Series:	Yale historical publications (Unnumbered)
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Before the 19th century, American prisons were used to hold people for trial and not to incarcerate them for wrong-doing. After independence, states began to reject such public punishment as whipping and pillorying and turn to imprisonment instead. Hirsch explores the reasons behind this change.  Read more...
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Subjects	Corrections -- United States -- History. Corrections -- Massachusetts -- History. Prisons -- United States -- History. View all subjects
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