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Prison & Asylum Reform

Prison & Asylum Reform. By Alexis Neumann, Anthony DiMeglio , & Casey Rodenberg. What is a prison reform?. Started by Dorothea Lynde Dix in the 1840’s. They were psychiatric treatments for the insane. . How did dix get the idea?.

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Prison & Asylum Reform

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  1. Prison & Asylum Reform By Alexis Neumann, Anthony DiMeglio, & Casey Rodenberg

  2. What is a prison reform? • Started by Dorothea Lynde Dix in the 1840’s. • They were psychiatric treatments for the insane.

  3. How did dix get the idea? • A conversation was overheard between two men about the poor conditions of a jail in Boston and Dix decided to go and see if she could help the people in the jail. • She saw the poor living conditions of the mentally ill and decided to help them. • She visited many hospitals in hope to help people.

  4. What happened to the hospitals? • Dix watched the hospitals grow in numbers and also in size. • They transformed from warm familial care into “overcrowded custodial institutions.” • People called them “museums of madness”

  5. How did Dix Spend the end of her life? • During the civil war she wanted to set up a nursing service for the soldiers. She got the title “Superintendent of Union Army Nurses” but when things couldn’t go her way the job didn’t end up working out. • She outlived her friends and family and spent the last years of her life living in the New Jersey State Hospital in Trenton.

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