Reforming the Treatment of Prisoners and the Mentally Ill
This Slitherly Snake game is about how Dorothea Dix helped to reform America.
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Topics of this game:
- When did Dorothea Dix first visit a jail?
- What were the conditions of the inmates?
- Which state did Dix visit hundreds of jails throughout?
- What did the mentally ill face?
- What did Dix believe was better for the mentally ill?
- What did Dix do in response?
- What did the state legislature do for her cause?
- True or false? When Dix died, states had reformed their justice systems and asylums.
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