The Prison Discipline Society Records, 1828-1854, 1836-1842.

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The Prison Discipline Society Records, 1828-1854, 1836-1842.

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The Prison Discipline Society (PDS), founded by Louis Dwight in 1825 to improve public prisons, ceased to exist after Dwight's death in 1854. The records include annual reports and Rev. Mr. Stone's 1854 sermon before the PDS. PDS members collected facts and statistics on prisons through correspondence and annual visits to various prisons. Corresponding members included Louis Dwight, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Samuel B. Woodward. Excerpts from the Annual Reports of the London Discipline Society are included to contrast European and North American prisons. Topics covered in the annual reports and sermon of the PDS include solitary confinement, religion, convict labor, prison administration, prison design and construction, and segregation and classification of prisoners by gender, crime, age, and mental health.

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Simmons College, Beatley Library

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Simmons College, Beatley Library

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Woodward, Samuel B. (Samuel Bayard), 1787-1850

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Tocqueville, Alexis ˜deœ 1805-1859

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French author. From the description of Autograph letter unsigned : Louisville, to [Ernest de Chabrol-Chaméane], 1831 Dec. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572695 Tocqueville, political scientist, historian, and politician, who wrote Democracy in America (1835-40). From the description of Yale Tocqueville manuscripts, ca. 1802-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79763433 From the description of Yale Tocqueville manuscripts, ca. 1802-1840. (Unknown)....

Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Mass.)

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Dwight, Louis.

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