Action Alert: Massachusetts residents, help Stop The Shock!
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…
May 9, 2023
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ASAN New England Testimony on Aversives by Sara Willig
…our rights as human beings to be taken seriously. Animals and criminals have more protections than those of us in the Judge Rotenberg Center. 42 USC 15009 SEC. 109. RIGHTS…
October 27, 2009
Joint Letter to the Massachusetts Conference Committee
…Report. For several years, Massachusetts has failed to pass a general and complete ban of this practice, which has allowed the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton to subject people with…
June 6, 2012
NFB Disability Law Symposium Keynote from ASAN President Ari Ne’eman
…whole lives in institutions – much less the many Americans with disabilities who still must suffer this segregation. They don’t know about the Judge Rotenberg Center or school abuse through…
May 8, 2009
Learn About Upcoming, Proposed, and Final Federal Rules for Spring 2024
…UN has called them torture. The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Massachusetts is the only institution in the country that makes and uses these devices. This rule would ban these…
April 30, 2024
Autistic Self Advocates and Allies Campaign for Electric Shock Ban
…aversive use such as that practiced at the Judge Rotenberg Center, which is at this point the only program in Massachusetts and in fact the world to use contingent electric…
June 22, 2012
Get your tickets for the 2022 Annual Gala!
…in use at the Judge Rotenberg Center. We will provide an update about the current legal and legislative status of the FDA ban and how our community can take action…
October 31, 2022
A Letter of Support for Legislation Banning Electric Stimulation Devices
…suffering. The only facility in the United States that utilizes these devices as an aversive is the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Massachusetts. Testimony from former residents of the JRC,…
July 14, 2022
Template Letter to FDA
…to whether that state has any citizens who are residents of the Judge Rotenberg Center]. [We/I] therefore strongly urge the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA, and the…
March 15, 2019
Happy Holidays from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network
…Judge Rotenberg Center’s abuse of children, fighting for more public support on critical topics like transition supports, true community integration, stopping restraint and seclusion and more. In addition, our programming…
December 22, 2011