Asylum & Prison Reform Leaders

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Dorothea Dix helped the APR and many people from getting deathly sick, which caused them to eventually die.

Dorothea made nine states in the south create public hospitals, helping the sick at the asylums and prisons stay alive (also regular citizens too).

Dix thought of rehabilitation, to reform a sick or prisoned person to be a regular citizen again.

Prisons and asylums were not nearly as bad as they were after Dorothea Dix.

Pictures of Dorothea Dix

1800s

APR = Asylum & Prison Reform