PRISON REFORM

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PRISON REFORM
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CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT

• 1700s public whippings, beatings.
• Early 1800s prisons for reforming sinners

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Dorothea Dix

• 1840s Investigates Prisons
• Reported to govt on poor conditions,
  mistreatment of mentally ill.

• Dorothea Dix

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Effects of Prison Reform

• States build hospitals for mentally ill

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Dorothea Dix

• What did you learn about the expected roles of
  women that would have interfered with Dix going
  before the legislature with her findings?
• Women were not supposed to give public speeches.
  She wrote a speech and a man delivered it.