The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center outside Boston is the only place in the country known to use electrical skin shocks as aversive conditioning for patients with severe developmental and behavior disorders who harm themselves or others. The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to ban the skin shock devices used by the center....
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Mon, 09/15/2014 - 1:47am
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- Once troubled youths, 2 New Yorkers describe time in Mass. facility that uses shocks for therapy
I TOLD MY MOM I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF. THERE. STORIES ARE ALSO RAISING NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO GETS SENT TO THE JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER. WELL, THE SCHOOL SAYS THEY ONLY USE SHOCKS WHEN ALL OTHER ...
05/18/2024 - 4:17 am | View Link - Mass. school fights off challenges to controversial treatment with the help of taxpayer money
In the ornate hall inside New York's State Capital Building earlier this month, activists and lawmakers took turns at the microphone, rallying to, in their words, "Stop the shocks." ...
05/17/2024 - 4:14 pm | View Link - How taxpayer money helps a Mass. school fight off challenges to controversial treatment
The Judge Rotenberg Center is the only place in the country using painful electric shocks as a treatment for disabled people.
05/17/2024 - 11:48 am | View Link - Mass. school prevails despite decades of opposition to its use of shocks for therapy
Legislation has been shot down, and the JRC has prevailed in state and federal courts. It beat back the U.S. Food and Drug Administration when it tried to ban the devices that administer the shocks.
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To be blunt, if we don’t do this as a city, if we don’t do this as a society, what are we going to do?” Bishop Louis F. Kihneman III asks.
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