From Chains to Change: The Era of Prison Reform

From Chains to Change: The Era of Prison Reform
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Chapter 18 explores the conditions of prisons before the reform movement gained traction. Inmates were often confined to chains, living in cramped cages with no access to rehabilitation or education.

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Slide1CHAPTER 18:AN ERA OF REFORM

Slide2PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM •  Jail inmates were in chains & lived in cages. •  Children were in jail with adult prisoners. •  Mentally ill were treated as criminals. •  Insufficient mental hospitals.

Slide3PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM

Slide4PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM

Slide5PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM

Slide6PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM

Slide7PRISON REFORM:REFORM LEADER •  Dorothea Dix

Slide8PRISON REFORM:REFORMS •  New asylums •  State governments stopped placing debtors in prison. •  Special justice systems for children •  Cruel punishments outlawed

Slide9EDUCATION REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM •  Few areas had public schools. •  Schoolrooms were overcrowded. •  Teachers had limited education & received little pay. •  Most children didn’t go to school.

Slide10EDUCATION REFORM:REFORM LEADER •  Horace Mann

Slide11EDUCATION REFORM:REFORMS •  New York set up public elementary schools. •  Massachusetts voted to pay taxes to build better schools, pay teachers higher salaries, & establish training schools for teachers. •  By 1850, most white boys attended free public schools. •  Public universities accepted women.

Slide12ABOLITIONISM:GOAL OF THE MOVEMENT •  to abolish slavery

Slide13ABOLITIONISM:LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT •  William Lloyd Garrison •  Frederick Douglass •  Angelina & Sarah Grimke •  Sojourner Truth

Slide14WOMEN’S RIGHTS:CONDITIONS BEFORE THE MOVEMENT •  Women could not vote or hold office. •  Fathers/husbands controlled women’s money & property. •  Husbands could physically discipline their wives.

Slide15WOMEN’S RIGHTS:LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT •  Lucretia Mott •  Elizabeth Cady Stanton •  Lucy Stone

Slide16SENECA FALLS:GRIEVANCES •  Man did not let woman vote. •  He did not give her property, rights, even to her own wages. •  He did not allow her to practice professions like medicine & law.

Slide17SENECA FALLS:ADVANCES ACHIEVED •  New York gave women control over property & wages. •  Massachusetts & Indiana passed more liberal divorce laws. •  Elizabeth Blackwell started her own hospital. •  Women eventually were given the right to vote.

Slide18WOMEN ’ S  G RIEVANCES He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.

Slide19WOMEN ’ S  G RIEVANCES He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.

Slide20WOMEN ’ S  G RIEVANCES He has so framed the laws of divorce, and to whom guardianship of the children shall be given, in all cases, puts all power into his hands.