…of Shock, Mother Jones, Aug. 20, 2007, available at http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/school-shock; Dan Moser & Alan Grant, Screams, Slaps, and Love: A Surprising, Shocking Treatment Helps Far-Gone Mental Cripples, in Life Magazine…
…was shocked” (Ahern and Rosenthal 3). The behaviors that JRC considers punishable by shocking are also discovered by surveillance footage, with shocks then administered after the fact. Shock has even…
Action Center ➞ Issue Tracker ➞ Your Rights In School ➞ School Climate ➞ #StopTheShock Introduction Some schools use restraint and seclusion on people with disabilities. Some use aversives. All…
…stood with disability rights advocates to announce new legislation targeting facilities that practice electro-shock treatments on disabled children. For decades, disabled advocates have fought to end torture at the Judge…
…in the country still uses electric shocks this way, and the UN found the practice to be torture in 2013. The FDA banned this use of electric shocks in 2020,…
Today, the Food and Drug Administration released their final ban on the electric skin shock devices used to torture children and adults with disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center. The…
…shock devices at the Judge Rotenberg Center. For decades, disabled advocates have fought to end the use of electric shocks at the JRC. The inclusion of the ban language in…
…violent aversives gain traction.[4] The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture has declared the use of electric shock as torture.[5] At ASAN, we believe that contingent electric shock – and…
For years, the disability community has worked to end torture at the Judge Rotenberg Center. While we work towards an FDA ban on the use of electric shocks, there is…
On April 22, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a proposed rule to ban the use of electrical shock devices such as those used at the Judge Rotenberg…
