![Sakhalin: katorga [Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East]. Complete in two volumes. Vlas M....](/images/noimage.png)
Moscow: I. D. Sytin, 1903. Octavo (27.5 × 17.5 cm). Contemporary half calf with gilt tooling and title to spine; 438 and 199, [2] pp. With numerous photographs and illustrations throughout. Binding rubbed at spine extremities; corners somewhat scuffed; light foxing and discoloration throughout due to stock; good or better..... More
Two volumes ([iv], 315, appendix of [2], 174 pp.; and [viii], 427-524, [4], 395-728, [2] pp.) comprising three of the five reports issued in 1835 by the House of Lords to investigate the state of prisons in England and Wales, with the goal of researching the prospect of instituting a...... More
![Tiuremnye “volynki” [Prison “bagpipes” (strikes)]. Along the head of the title: Deshevaia...](/pictures/thumb/51074_001.jpg?v=1608140500)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo vsesoiuznogo obshchestva Politkatorzhan i SS.-Poselentsev, 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 24 pp. Light soil to wrappers; slight wear to wrapper edges else very good. A brief history of political prisoner protests staged in Czarist Russia in the lead up to the 1905 Revolution..... More
237 pp. text on prison reform in mid-century Spain, divided into chapters with headings such as "Educación, Cultura y Arte", "Labor Religiosa", "Trabajos Exteriores", "Redención de Penas", "Libertad Condicional", and "Instituciones Especiaies", followed by an unpaginated (28 pp.) appendix titled "Estadistica Penitenciaria" of various tables and charts, documenting statistics such..... More
103 pp. report on the tattoos found amound the resident convicts at the penal colony of Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, with brief preface by Cesare Lombroso, highlighting various types of tattoos found within the population, including religious tattoos, revenge tattoos, political tattoos, erotic and obscene tattoos, tattoos dedicated..... More
730 pp. report on prisons and prison labor in early 20th century Italy, organized by type of intuition (youth reformatory, house of corrections, agricultural penal colony) and region, illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs showing prison buildings, inmates, working conditions, and the produce of prison labor. Light foxing and page..... More