1 Jan 1840 Jahr - Movement for Public Asylums

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Dorothea Dix helped publicize the horrible treatment of mentally ill people that are convicted criminals. Thomas Gallaudet opened a school for the deaf and Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe started a school for the blind. For Prisons Pennsylvania took the lead for prison reform, building new prisons called penitentiaries.

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