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=__Biography of Dorthea DIx__=

Dorathea Dix was borned on April 4th, 1802, and died on july 17th 1887. When she was 12 years old she ran away from home and she started working at the age 14 as a teacher, teaching in worcester massachusettes. Then in 1821 she opened a school only for female and she stopped teaching in 1830. Her true calling came to her one day when a clergy-men asked her to teach a sunday school class, in the East Cambridge House of Correction Massachussetts and she accepted that challenge. At the East cambridge House of Correction Massachussetts she had seen inhumane treatment towards the mentally-ill. The mentally-ill were locked up witht he hardcore criminals. The prisoner were unclothed, left in the darkness, without heat, and the enviorment were unsanitary. The environment the prisoner was living in was just harsh and horrible. on January 1843 Dorothea Dix passed in a report to the Massachusetts legislature, on the were-about of the prisoner's living condition. Next she moved on reforming the prisons in Rhode Island and later in New York. In the next 40 years her movement had spread through-out 15 states in the united states. Her movement was so renounce that Canada was also followed her movement, by establishing mental hospital for the mentally ill. In 1845 she published a book called __Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States to advocate reforms.__ During the Civil war between the south and the north, she was appointed head of the nurses. After the war she went back to working in hospitals improving the prison system day by day.

=__Present day Prison Reform__= media type="custom" key="12887728"

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Summary: This article is basically about this new program that the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections in Ohio came up with. The purpose of the program is to help pre-released inmates out into the real world by giving them a more secure environment to live on, not only that, but also teaches and help the inmate listing safety, stability and order, service delivery, self-development, and personal and society wellness. Also this program train inmates to be prepare for the outside world again and help provide the inmates a job once they are released out to the public. This program is all about correcting the criminals and mould them into something that society accepts.=====

=**__How prison Reform change America__**=

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Prison Reform changed America because it changed the people's perspective of prison, Because back then prisons where horrifying, more horrifying than modern day. In the past there were no light in the dark, unsanitary, and no heat, and full of insane people and criminals, like a mad house. What Dorothea did change the way people imagine the word prison. Today they think of bars and bunk bed full of prisoners. Well it is better than in the 1800, what she change really given Prisoner some comfort in Prison. Sure prison is a dull place, but at least there were security, unlike the 1800. By what Dorothea done, she really alter the image of prison. From what she done she has contributed to the better good of humanity.===== =__**Modern Day Prison Reformer**__=

Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor and also played the Terminator and in the movie "The Terminator" was a prison reformer. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947 near Graz, Austria. Back in Arnold's childhood he had a difficult time since his father was an alcoholic and favored his brother over Arnold. Beside that, Arnold dreamt of becoming a body builder, but his father refuse his son to have a career as becoming a body-builder. One the day of his father died, he refused to show up to his funeral, show how he despise his father. The one that brought Arnold from Austria was Joe Weider, the man behind the international Federation of Body building, an organization which sponsored Mr.Universe and Mr.Olympia. Later he pursue in the movie making business and received a Golden Globe Award for Best newcomer. What made Arnold Schwarzenegger the Governor of California was, in 2003 he ran for the seat as governor and won that title. What made Arnold Schwarzenegger a Prison Reformer was that recently the increase of criminal entering California's state prison had increase over the pass year and it is getting stuffed that Arnold is resorted for a new strategy and that is to release criminal earlier than they should be. What makes Arnold a Prison Reformer is that he can't let the prison be too stuffed full of inmates or else it would cause problems for other inmates, like fights and it would cause the condition of the prison worsen like the environment.

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