2. Problems

3. Problems From Reformers Before, cells were made without any bench, table or a bed. Prisons faced over crowding and inadequate funding. Led to riots, mass escapes and assaults on prison guards

4. Solutions

5. After War of 1812, Boston and N.Y. moved children into juvenile detention centers. The new Prison Reform was made by Louis Dwight. Boston Prison Discipline Society

6. Impacts Dorthea Dix campaigned for mentally ill patients. “ The insane were confined in this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens beaten with rods, lased into obedience.” Helped establish five hospitals in America Went to Europe and pleaded for human rights to the Pope and Queen Victoria. In 1841 was the beginning of Eastern Lunatic Asylum and this was the most publicly supported psychiatric hospital.

7. Sources http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/57125/prison_p roblems_of_the_past_and_present.html?cat=37 http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/57125/prison_p roblems_of_the_past_and_present.html?cat=37 http://www.ushistory.org/us/26d.asp

8. Questions Who made the prison reform? What were the problems with prison systems? What were some solutions to help the prisons?