Prisoner Visitation and Support records, 1952-1991.

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Prisoner Visitation and Support records, 1952-1991.

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Includes six boxes of organizational correspondence, biographical information, meeting minutes, and reports; manuscript biographies of conscientious objectors and other war resisters for a projected book by Robert Horton; correspondence between the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors and the Federal Bureau of Prisons; two boxes of financial and fundraising material; four boxes of correspondence and notes of prison visitors; 30 boxes of prisoner correspondence; also includes reference material about prisons, chaplaincy to prisons, amnesty for draft resisters, military prisoners, and the prisoner work strike at Danbury (Conn.) Prison, 1972. Correspondents include David Wesley Brown (program secretary), Russell Clausen (chair of the PVS board), Eric Corson (program secretary), Kay Horton , Robert Horton, and Fay Honey Knopp (d. 1995).

24 linear ft.

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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SNAC Resource ID: 8177066

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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United States. Bureau of Prisons

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The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was created by the Act of May 14, 1930 (ch.274,- 46 Stat. 325) and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover. The mission of the Bureau of Prisons was to maintain secure, safe, and humane correctional institutions for individuals placed in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General; to develop and operate correctional programs that seek a balanced application of the concepts of punishment, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation; and provide, primarily through t...

Brown, David W. (David Wesley), 1960-

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Corson, Eric

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Horton, Robert, 1900-1991

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Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors

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Horton, Kay.

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Clausen, Russell,

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Knopp, Fay Honey

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Prisoner Visitation Service

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Prisoner Visitation and Support.

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Prisoner Visitation and Support; founded as the Prisoner Visitation Service in April 1968, to carry forward the Quaker tradition of caring for prisoners and to serve the increasing numbers of GIs who were resisting the Vietnam War and were being sent to brigs and stockades for their acts of conscience; major founder was the Rev. Robert Horton (1900-1991), a retired Methodist minister with years of prison visitation experience; other participants included the Central Committee for Conscientious O...

Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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