

Western State Penitentiary ( Record Group 15)Īlthough the state legislature authorized the erection of the prison on the outskirts of Allegheny City (now part of Pittsburgh) in 1818, the first inmates were not received until 1826.

At the age of six he began with sea shells, and soon graduated to coins, the gateway drug to so many other fields of collecting.

Located at Claremont (Blawnox) the workhouse was established in 1866 and maintained a prison population from 1869 to 1971. Allegheny County Work House ( Manuscript Group 197) Please note that few indices exist for these records.
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The Division of Archives and Manuscripts has population records for these three penal institutions plus those of the Allegheny county Work House. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Subsequently, approval for the erection of the Eastern State Penitentiary at Philadelphia in 1821 and for the Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon in 1878 was granted. Details about Vintage Armstrong Heritage Silver Flute See original listing. Entdecken Sie sterling silberen quer flote, fluter, Heritage / Jack Moore / Armstrong in der großen Auswahl bei eBay. In 1818 the legislature provided funds for the construction of the state's first penitentiary, the Western State Penitentiary in Pittsburgh. The Commonwealth was one of the first political entities to abolish the use of corporal punishment for crime and to replace it with a system of rehabilitation through incarceration.
