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Handbook for Inmates

This booklet is a reproduction of the Handbook for Inmates given to all new Eastern State Penitentiary inmates in the 1960s. Discusses regulations and rights governing inmate life during the last decade of the institution. The original handbooks were printed in the Penitentiary’s Print Shop.

Dimensions (in inches): 6.45 x 4.25, 20 pages, soft cover.

$4.75 ($3.95 plus .80 S & H)

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