…Human Services Sent via electronic mail Re: Proposed Rulemaking to Ban Use of Electric Skin Shock Devices Dear Secretary Becerra, Commissioner Califf, and General Counsel Bagenstos, We, the undersigned, write…
…a difference, meet with your legislators and demand they #StoptheShock Download Stop The Shock Leave Behind Letter as a PDF here Download Stop The Shock Leave Behind Letter as a…
…JRC who are or were subjected to electric shocks. Despite three out of four people saying that they did not want to be shocked and all four saying that the…
…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…
…being used to torture disabled people. Autistic people and people with other disabilities are being shocked. They are being shocked for things like: getting out of their chair, not taking…
…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,…
…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…
