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Dorothea Dix was the instrumental change. Dorothea and the states helped solve the issue. They investigated, trying figure out was going on. So then they were trying to get the kids out of prison and making sure they were treated well. Later on they eventually got them out.

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A change that was attempted or was made is that the fact that the people were being held in a prison for their conditions has changed, that is not allowed anymore and it became a law.

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The change was so sought because in the 1800s the social problem was so that the social ills were attacked many social reformers. This reform movement was led by people who believed that America could do anything if she put her mind to it.

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Description of Dorothea Dix and her role at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.

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The states, people who investigated the prisons,  and Dorothea Dix

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Who were some key people/places related to this reform?

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Who were some key people/places related to this reform?

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Yes, now the mentally ill are treated as they should be and not in a prison being treated as criminals. The fact that the people were being held in a prison for their conditions has changed, that is not allowed anymore and it became a law.

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Through Dorothea’s writings, the states investigated in this problem and soon developed facilties to improve care of the mentally ill.

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Dorothea Dix, and the faculties that were established to help.

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A lady named Dorothea Dix helped with the treatment of people who were mentally ill. One day she taught a Sunday school class in a jail; She discovered that mentally ill people were kept there and treated like criminals. Dorothea spent months visiting prisons all around and reporting back to her Massachusetts legislature. She wrote about their conditions and how mental illness should not be treated as criminal behavior. Therefore, her writings got to many states and they investigated the treatment of the mentally ill people and established faculties to help stop this and give them care.