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Prison Reform Movement and Care for the Disabled

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Prison Reform Movement and Care for the Disabled

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This movement worked to improve prison conditions and make mental hospitals for the disabled. Dorothea Dix taught a sunday school class at a prison and saw the horrific treatment of the prisoners and disabled. Dorothea reported these disturbing images to the state legislature and was able to get other reforms enacted.

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Dorthea Dix and Prison Reform in the U.S.

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Dorthea Dix and Prison Reform in the U.S.

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Video about the prison reform.

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Dorthea Dix and Prison Reform in the U.S.

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Prison conditions were really bad and the sentences were often worse than what they should have been. Many prisoners were just there because they were in debt. Most prisoners were beat in the prisons

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Insane Asylum Reform Movement, a timeline made with Timetoast's free interactive timeline making software.

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The disabled were treated horribly back in the 1800's. Many people with disabilities were taken to prisons just because people didn't know how to treat them. The picture below shows some of the horrible tactics people used on disabled people back then.

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Those in jail - The mentally ill - The disabled

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Dorothea Dix was a leader in the care for the disabled and prison reform movement.

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More about William Lloyd's newspaper.

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I Will Be Heard: The Legacy of William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator [12/03/15]

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Please join the Associates of the Boston Public Library for a special lecture by Donald Yacovone, Ph.D., marking the 150th anniversary of the final issue of William Lloyd Garrison's renowned abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.

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Video about William Lloyd's Newspaper: The Liberator.

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The abolitionist movement was a movement that worked towards a goal of abolishing slavery. Many people (especially in the north) supported this movement including former slaves. Leaders of this movement made things like "The North Star" and the Underground Railroad to help protest against slavery

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an anti-slavery newspaper written by Fredrick Douglass

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The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper) - Wikipedia

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The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847 and ceased as The North Star in June 1851 when it merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in Syracuse, New York) to form Frederick Douglass' Paper.

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After escaping slavery, Harriet became a conductor for the Underground Railroad, an escape route for slaves. Using her underground railroad, she helped more than 300 slaves escape.

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A former slave, Fredrick moved on to be  an abolitionist after he escaped. In 1847, he started an anti-slavery news paper called the "North Star"