Prison Reform

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Prison Reform1841-1880s
I am mentally ill and need help, not be beaten.
I'm just a kid
Mentally ill Hospital
Your safe here!
One day in 1841, A Boston women named Dorrothea Dix agreed to teach Sunday school at a jail. What she witnessed that day changes her life forever. What shocked Dix the most was the way that the mentally ill were treated. Later, in 1845 Dix published Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States to advocate reforms in the treatment of ordinary prisoners. This is what changed society.
"I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane...men and women.
"I proceed...to call your attention, to the present state of insane persons, confined...in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience! "
Back then, many prisoners were bound in chains and locked in cages. Children accused of minor thefts were jailed with adult criminals. While these people were locked up, they could not earn money to repay the debts they had resulting in prison for years longer. The mentally ill were locked in dirty cells and if they misbehaved they were whipped and beaten.
This is not fair! I am going to save you, get you out, and help! Things need to change.
HELPPPPPPPHELPPPPPPPPPPP
Mentally ill
After campaigning for better condition for two years, Dix wrote a detailed report over all the horror she has seen in these prison and jails. The lawmakers were shocked on what she had wrote and voted to create  public hospitals for the mentally ill. By the time she died in 1887, state government no longer put debtors in prison, created special groups for children in trouble, and outlawed cruel punishment.
See ya!!
Dorothea Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the  mentally ill. Through a sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, she created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses. Overall made a big impact on the US today.
-Dorrothea Dix is having a conversation with a mentally ill prisoner she saw while teaching Sunday school at the jail-
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