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Major Leaders in Asylum and Prison Reform
Dorothea Dix
After visiting a Massachusetts house of correction, she sent a report to the legislature, and as a result, a law was passed to improve the conditions, in 1843. Between 1845 and 1852, the Southern states set up public hospitals for the mentally ill.
