“Prisoners of the Apparatus”: The Judge Rotenberg Center
…the abuses that occur towards students of the JRC. How Does the JRC Justify Its Behavior? In discussing the JRC, it is important to look at how they have traditionally…
…the abuses that occur towards students of the JRC. How Does the JRC Justify Its Behavior? In discussing the JRC, it is important to look at how they have traditionally…
…literature published by the JRC and affiliated researchers, which seldom reported or indicated monitoring for adverse effects. In the one JRC study that did identify adverse effects – a retrospective…
…David O’Connor, attorney for JRC founder and former Executive Director Matthew Israel and current Executive Director Dr. Von Heyn, as well as JRC itself, argued that the two individual defendants…
…James Riley and current JRC Director Robert Von Heyn, with the third individual defendant, JRC founder Dr. Matthew Israel, still absent. Dina Traniello, member of the disability rights organization TASH…
…on the issue of the JRC’s last witnesses. The last expert that JRC had expected to testify had to return to Canada that afternoon, and instead JRC wanted a direct…
…torture. An ABAI taskforce looking into the use of electric shocks at the JRC presented their findings and final recommendations in September. The taskforce interviewed four people institutionalized at the…
…have been fighting to stop the JRC. We want to stop people at the JRC from getting shocked. We’ve been working together to try to stop the JRC for more…
…a sense of who Dr. Riley was and the work he had done for JRC. He identified himself as a psychologist and current Acting Clinical Director at JRC. Earlier in…
…to reduce physical arousal to the images’ content. She clarified that she did not use the skin shock device used at JRC, the Graduated Electronic Decelerator (GED), stating that the…
…use of contingent electric shock, over 8,000 of which were from Massachusetts residents. Miller and McCollins, respectively a former JRC teacher’s aide and the mother of former JRC student Andre…