A woman named Dix accepted a job at a jail to teach Sunday school, when she was there she saw the horrible conditions of the mentally ill, chained and abused, she went to the newspapers and eventually convinced people to make a mentally ill hospital, Dix died while trying to get her idea a reality but it did end up happening
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Jail ReformBoston, Massachusetts
(The judge that passed her law)
I am Mrs. Dix, I will be your new Sunday school teacher at this jail
The conditions here for the prisoners and mentally ill are horrible, this needs to change
The conditions in jails are horrible for the mentally ill, we need to build mental hospitals for the ill
Ok ill make a newspaper article about this, people will listen to you and help the ill
I'm glad I listened to you dix, you were right and I'm happy to say that we passed a new law saying mentally ill get special hospitals to better treat them, you movement will help so many people
I agree, thanks judge for helping put my plan into action
Yes, the mentally ill are now treated a lot better and there are now more public mental asylums thanks to you
This new mentally ill hospital they made is great, all this just from my findings and a simple newspaper article
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