Prison Reform and Temperance
By: Zane, Jacob, Will, and Brie
Conditions of Prisons and Asylums in the 1800s
"confined in this commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, beaten with rods, lashed into obedience." -Dorothea Dix
This is what conditions were like in prisons and asylums in the 1800s. But, Dorothea Dix had come to change all that.
Juvenile Detention Centers
Reformers from Boston and New York, wanted to take children from jails and move them to juvenile detention centers.
Some of the big Prison Reformers
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix was a middle age reformer who fought to help change the prison system in the USA.
Lyman Beecher
Lyman Beecher was the leader of the second great awakening.
Horace Mann
Horace Mann was one of the most important figures in the development of American education.
Auburn Prison Disaster
In 1821, in Auburn Prison, after being in solitary confinement almost 80 men either committed suicide or had complete mental breakdowns.
Bibliography
Holt Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1877
Bibliography cont.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Beecher
Bibliography cont.
Holt Call to Freedom Beginnings to 1877.