The Prison Discipline Society Records,
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 co...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Prison Discipline Society Records, |f 1828-1854, |g 1836-1842 |
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| 351 | |a Arranged in two series: Series I. Annual Reports. Series II. Sermon | ||
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| 520 | |a 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 | ||
| 520 | |a 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 | ||
| 524 | |a Prison Discipline Society Records, CC1, Simmons College Archives, Boston, MA | ||
| 540 | |a Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the College Archivist | ||
| 541 | |a School of Social Work |c transferred |d 1991 |e 92.029 | ||
| 541 | |a Donald Moreland |c gift |d 1988, 1989 | ||
| 555 | |a Finding aid available in College Archives | ||
| 561 | |a A portion of these materials were collected originally by the Boston Children's Aid Society as part of the "Library of Philanthropy" and given in 1912 to the Boston School for Social Workers (later renamed the Simmons College School of Social Work). Other papers in this collection were assembled by Donald W. Moreland, social work administrator and collector of social welfare books, manuscripts, and pamphlets | ||
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| 700 | 1 | |a Woodward, Samuel B. (Samuel Bayard) |d 1787-1850 | |
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