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What did Dorothea Dix learn when she visted debtor prisons in Massachusetts?

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Answer:

she learned about the appalling treatment of the prisoners particularly those with mental illnesses, whose living quarters had no heat.

Step-by-step explanation:

It was when she volunteered to teach a sunday school, class for women inmates of the East Cambridge prison in 1841. I don't really know anything else, sorry.

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