Related: Sunday Globe Special: Restraining My Anger
It being Easter and all I am going to do just that.
"New scrutiny for Bridgewater State Hospital after complaints; Group investigates facility over restraints, isolation" by Michael Rezendes | Globe staff April 17, 2014
A federally funded watchdog group has launched an investigation into the alleged abuse and neglect of inmates at Bridgewater State Hospital, interviewing staff and inmates this week about reports that guards and clinicians are illegally putting mentally ill men into physical restraints and isolation cells.
Lawyers from the Disability Law Center, designated under federal law to investigate complaints about the abuse of disabled people, converged on the medium-security prison Tuesday to meet with administrators, gather records, and meet with patients, the Department of Correction confirmed Wednesday....
If Disability Law Center officials conclude they have found wrongdoing, they could file a federal lawsuit against the state to force changes. In 2007, the center sued the department over allegations that the state’s prison system was subjecting mentally ill prison inmates to cruel and unusual punishment by placing them in solitary confinement for long periods and won significant concessions....
Except nothing has changed.
The center’s investigation follows a series of Globe articles....
That is also a state failure. It takes the news media to bring it to your attention? Or is it just them blowing a cover up as is usually the case.
The Disability Law Center, which receives most of its funding from the federal government, is particularly feared at the Department of Correction....
Why would government fear anything?
What is there to fear about tran$parency in Massachusetts government and the mistreatment and torture of people?
Btw, why you calling it corrections when the objective is to punish?
--more--"
Sort of a strange group doing the investigating seeing as the U.S. government is the biggest torturer on the face of the planet.
Also see: Bridgewater inmate’s family agrees to settle suit
It might take you a Minich to read it.
And here is something else to consider on this day of resurrection: state anger is the worst of all, since it often leads to wars and death.
