Asylum/prison reform

1831

After studies on the United States and it's penitentiary system French writer Alexis De Tocqueville had stated that the conditions in prisons weren't ok. Dorothea Dix, was compelled by personal experience to joint the movement for the reform. It was not right that jails housed mentally ill people. Dix and other reformers came to the conclusion that rehabilitation and treatment is better for ill people rather than jail

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