Prison And Asylum Reform

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The prison and asylum reform was the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, establish a more effective penal system, and implement an alternative to incarceration, because the prison system wasn’t working as effectively as it could for example prisoners committing the same offense after released and being incarcerated again, and also the fact that the only prisons considered “good” at this time were in Pennsylvania and Europe.
Some of the main reasons for this movement was the diversity of the people in the prison, the cruelty in the prisons, and the nasty conditions, but to get down to the nitty gritty there were overcrowding issues such as people with major cases put in the same place as those with minor cases this caused the people …show more content…

Chained beaten with rods, lashed into obedience.” She had also witness sexual abuse, starvation, and prisoners left naked and cold. After witnessing all this cruelty towards the criminals she went around Europe and America establishing her own mental hospitals and had actually agreed to teaching Sunday school in jails. Eventually she successfully stated her case to queen Victoria and the pope.
Another man involved was the Dr. John Galt he himself worked at one of these insane asylums as the superintendent of the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg. Although there was a stream of terrible abuse in the asylum and prison movement towards the sick and insane he was one of the few that treated his patients with care he had very little use for restraints and preferred a calming medication. He was also the first influence in …show more content…

The prison reform started January 1st 1870 and ended December 31st 1970. This reform bettered the prison system and changed prison and mental institutions not only in America but as well as Europe. Some successes that came from this reform was the widespread establishment of mental institutions, increased attention to prisoner’s rights, redefining prison procedure, and the attempt to cure mental illness although Dorothea Dix’s federal bill did fail. This reform swept the country and it all begin with Dorothea Dix thanks to her the prison system was changed

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