Arthur W. Clark Prison Reform Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence and other papers of Arthur W. Clark, a Quaker active in prison reform and restorative justice. Long active in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting committees, he was the first secretary of the PYM Prison Service Committee established in 1960, and he served as Executive Director of the Clemency Project Working Group. A small amount of personal correspondence is included.
Dates
- Creation: 1949 - 2006
Creator
- Clark, Arthur W., 1916-2008 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Arthur W. Clark was a graduate of Germantown Friends School and the University of Pennsylvania. A member of Germantown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, he married Mary Bennett Clark. A dedicated advocate for reform within the Criminal Justice System and committed to Restorative Justice, he was instrumental in starting a number of programs including the Pennsylvania Program for Women and Girl Offenders and the Clemency Project and was honored by the Pennsylvania Prison Society.
Extent
1 folders
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence and other papers of Arthur W. Clark, a Quaker active in prison reform and restorative justice. Long active in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting committees, he was the first secretary of the PYM Prison Service Committee established in 1960, and he served as Executive Director of the Clemency Project Working Group. A small amount of personal correspondence is included.
Custodial History
Arthur W. Clark was a long-time employee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. When he retired, this file was left in his office and preserved by Judy Van Hoy who was working for PYM at the time. The folder was included in the Van Hoy gift donation of 2016.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Judy and Michael Van Hoy, Acc. 2016.051.
- Title
- Arthur W. Clark Prison Reform Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Susanna Morikawa
- Date
- August 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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