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Dorothea Dix, born in Maine, 1802, schooled for many years. She then volunteered to teach a Sunday school in a prison. What she found there was shocking. Mental patients shared prison cells with criminals and were treated worse than animals. She wrote a long report with the key idea that mental patients shouldn't be treated inhumanely. Changes in treatment and education were largely because of Dorothea's influence.
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