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11/9/17
Reformers’ Agenda
- Includes, but not limited to: Education of deaf and blind, rehabilitation of criminals, equal rights
Alcohol Reform
- Alcohol consumption led to spousal and child abuse, crime, poverty, unproductive employees
- By 1826, the world’s first society calling for complete abstinence for distilled liquor: American
- Rehabilitation efforts
Very disciplined
Every prison cell had its own yard, own workspace, prisoners were completely
isolated
Physical hard labor, and isolation might cause introspection in the hopes of
rehabilitation
- Insanity Defense: criminal act should be legally punished only if the offender is capable of