---
title: 'Letter on Prison Conditions'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Samuel Wylie Crawford'
date: 1831-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 51'
- 'Ezekiel 18'
- 'Luke 15'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/crawford-1831-letter-on-prison-conditions
---

# Letter on Prison Conditions

Letters advocating solitary confinement with work and religious instruction at Eastern State Penitentiary to reform prisoners; condemns Walnut Street Prison's corrupt congregate system.

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