How successful were the prison reform and asylum reform movements during the antebellum period and what accounts for that success (or lack of success)?

1 HIST 120 Dr. Schaffer Excerpt on Prisons and Asylums from Moralists and Modernizers by Steven Mintz Excerpt from Steven Mintz, Moralists and Modernizers: America’s Pre -Civil War Reformers (Baltimore, 1995), pp. 86 90 and 95−101. Mintz is a historian who has written extensively about the reform movements of t he antebellum period. 2 HIST 120 Dr. Schaffer 3 HIST 120 Dr. Schaffer 4 HIST 120 Dr. Schaffer 5 HIST 120 Dr. Schaffer 6 HIST 120 Dr. Schaffer