Dorothea Dix prison reform efforts were a success. She was very mad about the way the mentally ill were treated. Also how kids were in the same cells as the adults. Dix was disappointed how the mentally ill were treated just because they weren’t like everyone else. They were beat and lived in dirty prison cells. Also how that when in debtor’s prison that you can’t work to pay off the debt.
Dorothea after a while was just fed up with it so she went to the Massachusetts legislator with a detailed report. She was shocked to see that the lawmakers voted to create public asylums for the ill.
Was a success because there are still asylums for the ill today and children aren’t in the same prisons as adults and don’t share the same cells as adults. According to the Britannica encyclopedia “she even inspired 15 other states and Canada to make asylums for the mentally ill.”
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