Doing research on the reformation of prisons and insane asylums in the mid-1800s......?

Question

does anyone know of any good websites or important facts or ideas that i should integrate into it? besides dorothea dix, i wont forget her

oh yea and its supposed to be in the US, but ill try lookin at that thanx

Answer 1

I would talk about Walnut Street Prison, it was the first Penitentiary in America 1790.

Talk about Western Penitentiary(1826) and Eastern Penitentiary(1829) in Pennsylvania, they were both based on the idea of Separate Confinement and had back-to-back cells facing both outward and inward. Prisoners worked worked, slept, and ate alone in their cells

Talk about Auburn Prison(1816). Used the Congregate system. Like Pennsylvania's separate confinement system, the congregate system was based on silence and labor. At Auburn, inmates worked and ate together, with silence enforced by prison guards.

Can talk about the Medical Model- Which said that institutions should offer a variety of programs and therapies to cure inmates of their "ills"

could talk about the pros and cons of the four prison designs
The radial Design
The Courtyard Style
The Telephone-pole design
The Campus style(don't think that was around back then though)

Talk about "Great Law"

Hope these things help

Answer 2

Read about the Newgate Prison in England
John Wesley led a great number of enthuastic Christians into Prison Ministry. They also did Restorative Justice Ministries--working with those newly released in Mentoring situations.
They worked with the children of the incarcerated, help educated and also helped find employment for those being released.
It's great reading and you can understand what a paradigm shift this type of prison reform was back in that era of time....