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Prison Reform Movement

All started when Dorothea Dix went to prisons in 1841 and reported how wrong it was for mentally ill pationts and children to be placed with adult prisoners.

How it Looked Then

Reprted that prisoners were being placed under terrible conditions like being beat, chained up and other terrible conditions.

Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix was a nurse that mainly saw how wrong American prisons would treat mentally ill patients so she later contributed and played a big role in over 30 hospitals for the mentally ill.

Timeline on how U.S Prisoners Were Treated

Timeline

Prisons today don't nearly treat mentally ill patients as bad, but in prisons today prisoners get denied proper health care. lack of food, natural light, and packed cells. Prisoners today also deal with corrupt officials that abuse there power.

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted

How Prisons Look Now

Work Cited

Ruth Delaney, Ram Subramanian, Alison Shames, Nicholas Turner, Examining Prisons Today, Vera, Vera, September 2018, https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-web-report/examining-prisons-today

Prison Conditions, Equal Justive Inactive, Equal Justice Inactive, https://eji.org/issues/prison-conditions/

Deverell, William and Deborah Gray White. United States History: Beginnings to 1914. Holt Social Studies, 2009, pp 450

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