Victor Folke Nelson
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Victor Folke Nelson was a Swedish-American writer, prisoner, and prison reform advocate. He spent many years incarcerated in both the New York and Massachusetts prison systems and came to the attentio
Cover of Prison Days and Nights by Victor Folke Nelson
Title page of Victor Folke Nelson's Prison Days and Nights
Inscription to Donald Moreland from Victor Folke Nelson in a copy of Prison Days and Nights. Book held by Harvard Houghton Library Offsite Storage, No. 2025-381
Inscription to George Steele from Victor Folke Nelson in a copy of Prison Days and Nights. Book held by Harvard Houghton Library Offsite Storage, No. 2025-382
Thomas Mott Osborne
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Thomas Mott Osborne was an American prison officer, prison reformer, politician, industrialist, and New York State political reformer. In an assessment of Osborne's life, a New York Times book reviewe
Victor Folke Nelson
…many years incarcerated in both the New York and Massachusetts prison systems and came to the attention of neurologist Abraham Myerson and penologist Thomas Mott Osborne for his potential as a writer. In 1932, Nelson published his book Prison Days and Nights with the assistance of Dr. Myerson. Victor Folke Nelson was…
Osborne, c. 1910
David M. Osborne (1822–1886), Thomas's father