In 1841 a woman named Dorothea Dix didn’t like the way that inmates and mentally ill people were treated. Dorothea then went before the Legislature of the state of Massachusetts and tried to get them to do something about the mistreatment of the inmates and the mentally ill persons. After hearing Dorothea Dix the lawmakers voted to create public asylums for the insane. After this Dix went to prisons all around the country. After she made reports in favor of the mentally ill more states made more asylums too. She campaigned for the rest of her life.
I think this reform was successful because according to virtualology .com some of her mental hospitals still are still around in New Jersey. To me this proves that this reform was successful.
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