Prison and Asylum Reform

Before reform, how were the mentally ill treated?

• Were left on the streets

• Forced to serve on many ships where they couldn't cause harm to the general public

• They endured shock therapy, were chained down, locked in rooms, put in prisons alongside murderers.

• Enslaves and forced to work in the cotton fields next to African Americans

Before reform, which was NOT true of prisons

• Children could receive life sentences

• Murderers would be mixed in with non-violent criminals

• People could be imprisoned for spitting in the streets

• People could escape without being punished

Who was the main leader in Prison and Asylum Reforms?

• Abigail Adams

• Betsy Ross

• Dorothea Dix

• Susan B Anthony

The major goal of the Prison Reform Movement was?

• To improve conditions in jails 
• To end slavery
• To ban the consumption of alcohol

What did reformer Dorothea Dix do to contribute to the prison reform movement in the early 1800s?

• She spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill.

• She founded an organization of women that worked together to provide education for imprisoned criminals.

• She organized many protest in hopes of motivating the government to build separate facilities for child offenders.

• She brought American's attention to the need for prison reform by writing novels detailing the condition of prisons.

Before reform, which was NOT true of prisons

• Children could receive life sentences

• Murderers would be mixed in with non-violent criminals

• People could be imprisoned for spitting in the streets

• People could escape without being punished