Catalogue of Products of the Industrial Division of Bilibid Prison and General Information. Revised to June, 1925. Relative to the Bureau of Prisons, including a lecture of the prison system of the Philippine Islands delivered by Mr. Ramon Victorio, Director of Prisons, in the American Prison Congress held at Salt Lake city, August 15-22, 1924.
Manilla: Bureau of Printing, 1925. 8vo (9” x 5.875”), printed wrappers. Folding flow chart frontis., 127 pp., numerous illus. A revealing annual report for Bilibid Prison in the Philippines, with three portraits of its administrators, a folding flow chart of the prison system organization, a map of the locations of prisons throughout the Philippine archipelago, and an address on its American-influenced “progressive” prison system. Included are descriptions and photographic images of the prisons and penal farms, statistical tables on the prison population and crimes committed, and a catalogue of wicker and wooden furniture made in the Industrial Division. Of interest is a list of crimes committed by inmates, such as concubinage, adultery, parricide, and the most common, theft and violation of city ordinances. The youngest prisoners were twelve years old. Includes a 1927 invoice for chairs from Kwong Hing Cheong to Passenger Mess (U.S.S. Hend[erson]). CONDITION: Good, light wear on wrappers, early ink signature on front wrapper, toning on endpapers, clean interior.
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