Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse provides the reader with a deeper understanding of social reform, social reformer, and the process as it occurred—or did not occur—in the state of Illinois Analytical linkages to theories of social change such as progressivism or social control are less well developedDorothea Lynde Dix lead the asylum movement in Massachusetts and her efforts quickened the movement in other states Dorothea Dix earned a teaching certificate at the age of fourteen In 1841, she taught a Sunday class at East Cambridge Jail, which was a female prison;Dorothea Dix was an educator and social reformer whose devotion to the welfare of the mentally ill led to widespread international reforms
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