Front Cover: George Lehman, “Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, Near Philadelphia,” 1833, Historical Society of Pennsylvania Medium Graphics Collection (Collection V64), HSP, available at http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/idno/246.

Eastern State Penitentiary was founded in 1819 with the bold goal of reforming, not punishing, those who were imprisoned there. In this issue, Rebecca Capobianco shows that, no matter how much reformers hoped for an institution of total control in which they alone determined the influences to which inmates were exposed, incarcerated individuals found ways to exercise agency and control the conditions of their lives. See Capobiano, “‘She is the beauty of this place’: Elizabeth Velora Elwell and the Role of Prisoner Participation and Deviance at Eastern State Penitentiary.”

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Christina Larocco

Managing Editor

Rachel Moloshok

Editorial Intern

Jessica Lis

Editorial Advisory Committee

Susan Branson
Syracuse University

Christopher Capozzola
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Peter Conn
Athenaeum of Philadelphia

Kali N. Gross
Rutgers University

Bernhard L. Herman
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

John Hinshaw
Lebanon Valley College

Lisa Levenstein
University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Chris Magoc
Mercyhurst University

Elizabeth Milroy
Drexel University

Leslie Patrick
Bucknell University

Thomas Rzeznik
Seton Hall University

Francis Ryan
Rutgers University

Karim Tiro
Xavier University

Roger Simon
Lehigh University

Janneken Smucker
West Chester University

Jonathan White
Christopher Newport University

James Wolfinger
DePaul University

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