The History and Romance of Crime: Non-Criminal Prisons 1465604170, 9781465604170

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A prison of great antiquity still exists in Rome and claims precedence in date over St. Angelo. This is the Mamertine P

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The period in French prison practice treated in this volume is one of transition between the end of the Old Régime and t

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