Asylum and Prison Reform

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Across
  1. 5. After prisoners were locked in confinement, many men had mental breakdowns and committed suicide. This event is known as The ______ Prison Suicide.
  2. 6. doctor who worked in the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, in Williamsburg, Virginia. He believed that insane people had dignity and he treated them with therapy and medicine rather than beatings.
  3. 7. ________ toured prisons and mental institutions around the country and used her observations of the poor living conditions to make her case against them.
  4. 9. The Auburn System was _______ rather than punishment.
  5. 10. people fought for _______ of prison sentences
Down
  1. 1. the battle against prisons resulted in a transformation from punishment to _______.
  2. 2. one thing that people fought for were for prisons to have ______
  3. 3. prisoners were often _____ and whipped
  4. 4. Mental Asylums often had horrible names such as the Eastern ________ Asylum.
  5. 8. He spread the Auburn System