She got then out of prisons and into hospitals.
Dorothy Dix worked to help the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix crusaded for humane treatment on the mentally ill. She began her work for the mentally ill in 1841.
it was moral treatment.
Dorothea Dix started a hospital for the mentally ill. She visited hundreds of jails and even taught Sunday School at a jail. She also saw that Children were given the same punishments of adults and stopped that.
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she made hospitals for mentally ill.