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U.s. History: Prison and Asylum Reform

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Two of the social movements of the 1830s and 1840s looked to improving the lot of the mentally ill and those in prison. Read about Dorothea Dix who crusaded for humane treatment and hospitals for the insane. Several others worked to make prisons more humane and something other than warehouses for those incarcerated for major and minor crimes.

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asylums, juvenile detention centers, mentally ill, prison reform, psychiatric hospital, state-supported care for mentally ill, ushistory.org, dorothea dix, independence hall association, louis dwight, movement to help disabled
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)