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social history of early prisons, his writings on international penology, and his review of
the work of the Pennsylvania Prison Society. The relevance of Teeters’s work to
contemporary scholarship and policy is noted. In addition, this article offers
observations by Teeters on prisons, crime, and the academic life in his correspondence
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