Asylum and Prison Reform

Prison and asylum reforms began through one experience, Dorothea Dix was teaching Sunday school and when she saw the inequality and horrible conditions of the prisons she was disgusted. Mentally ill people were treated horribly and unfairly for no reason, they did nothing wrong, and couldn't help themselves because they were mentally ill. She pushed for reforms and sooner or later mental patients were treated as actual patients and jails had better living conditions.