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Asylum/Prison Reform



- Prisons were filled with not only criminals, but the mentally ill, and all were treated terribly.
- The mentally ill were left in cages; chained, beaten, left naked, and over all treated like animals.
- Dorothea Dix pushed for reforms that would create asylums and hospitals to treat the mentally ill.