Matthew Israel, founder of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), has agreed to resign from the center under a plea bargain agreement to resolve criminal charges filed in the Norfolk County…
…ban on electric shock devices used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. As long as the residents of the JRC, most of whom are disabled people of color, are in danger,…
…ban on electric shock devices used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. As long as the residents of the JRC, most of whom are disabled people of color, are in danger,…
…devices at the JRC for over a decade, and we will not be ignored. Your calls, along with the hundreds of public comments sent in support of the FDA’s proposed…
…Agencies funding bill. This provision would have prohibited the FDA from banning the electric shock devices used at the JRC. We joined CCD in urging the House of Representatives to…
…Rotenberg Center (JRC): “Students wear the GED device [the device that delivers the electric shock] for the majority of their sleeping and waking hours, and some students are required to…
…only used at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), an institution in Massachusetts. The disability community has fought for decades against the use of skin shocks on our people. Last year,…
…disabled advocates have fought to end the use of electric shocks at the JRC. ASAN is relieved to see that, after years of relentless advocacy by the disability community, Congress…
…Rotenberg Center. Andre’s Law, which will stop any more New Yorkers from being sent to the JRC, is a critical step towards closing this dangerous and abusive institution for good….
…the use of electric skin shock as used at the JRC once, saying that they “determined that these devices present an unreasonable and substantial risk of illness or injury.” We…
