Dix
Americannoun
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Dorothea Lynde Dorothy, 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
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Otto, 1891–1969, German painter and printmaker.
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These images are no mere jeremiads but chilling depictions of suffering—both mental and physical—that bring to mind the most haunting works of Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The rapper’s legal team on Monday requested he carry out his sentence at FCI Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison in New Jersey.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
In 1939, Dix was thrown in jail over an improbable accusation that he was involved in an assassination attempt against Hitler.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2025
Dix is the first to go on trial.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024
In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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