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For 200 years, The Pennsylvania Prison Society has worked for the betterment of both prisons and prisoners. A constant tool in that work has been the use of the written word to disseminate information. In the early decades, this information was promul-gated through the use of pamphlets and Memorials, and, since 1845, in The Prison Journal (known until 1921 as the Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy). From