Reform of Prisons and Asylums

The prison and asylum movement was led by Dorothea Dix. Dix went to a prison to teach sunday school, and what Dix had seen there was the inmates bound to chains, locked in cages. Mosts surprising little boys and children accused of theft, were locked up with the adults. Dorothea visited hundreds of jails in Massachusetts, to see if they were all the same. Dix visited debtors jails, who had people whom owed less than $20, mentally ill were treated as mentally insane locked up in crowded dark damp cells. “Man is not made better by being degraded”. Dorothea Dix wanted to change all that make it humann, make people treated like people. If it wasn't for this movement we would all be evil, doing wrong by paying taxes