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Prison Reform Movement

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Mia Gore AP US History Mrs. Dellinger 21 February 2013 The Prison Reform Movement The prison reform movement, led by Dorothea Dix, sought to improve three major flaws in the jailing system: Overcrowding, ill treatment of inmates, and failing to separate those inmates with mental illnesses and give them proper care. Dix is quoted saying to the Massachusetts legislature: ?The sick and insane are confined in this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, beaten with rods, lashed into obedience.?
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