CCHR Launches Mental Health Rights Policy to Prevent Patient Torture
In the wake of numerous U.N. and World Health Organization reports and guidelines against “psychiatric” and “psychological torture” in mental health facilities, CCHR urges repeal…
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CCHR Condemns FDA Stay on Ban of Skin-Shocking Students for Behavioral Control
A banned device continues to be used to electroshock body parts of students for painful behavior modification & punishment and has human rights group riled….
U.N. investigating Judge Rotenberg Center’s Use of Electroshock of Kids as Torture
Powerful video of a Judge Rotenberg Center student shocked and restrained for hours continues to reverberate on Beacon Hill and beyond, with opponents of the treatment stepping up efforts to ban the shocks as the United Nations expert on torture says he’s investigating the school. The video has helped fuel a renewed lobbying effort to ban the long-controversial shocks. Several opponents of the shocks, including the mother of the student in that video, visited lawmakers’ offices today to press for the ban.
“We’re going to continue to let our children be tortured? I just hope that they come to their senses are realize this is wrong and it’s been wrong for the last 27 years,” said Cheryl McCollins, mother of former Rotenberg Center student Andre McCollins.
UN Calls Electroshock Treatment of Kids at Massachusetts School “Torture”
The Boston-area’s Judge Rotenberg Center educates and treats enrollees ages 3 to adult, all of whom are struggling with severe emotional, behavior, and psychiatric problems, including autism-like disorders. And for about half of the 250 students here, undesirable behavior means getting hooked up to a special machine and administered an electric shock.
US school for disabled forces students to wear packs that deliver massive electric shocks
Findings in the MDRI report include the center’s practice of subjecting children to electric shocks on the legs, arms, soles of feet and torso — in many cases for years — as well as some for more than a decade. Electronic shocks are administered by remote-controlled packs attached to a child’s back called a Graduated Electronic Decelerators (GEI).