DOJ initiates official investigation of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC)
Investigation spurred by disability advocates
Disability advocates have cause for celebration today. In response to a September 30th letter from Nancy Weiss of the National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities that was signed by 31 disability organizations, the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division has announced that they have initiated an official investigation of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC).
The investigation centers around the use of electric shock, other painful and aversive procedures, seclusion, unnecessary restraint, and food deprivation as methods of behavior control.
Organizations that were recipients of the September 30th letter: the Office on Disability, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education; the Attorney General of the United States; the U.S. Department of Justice; the House Committee on Education & Labor; the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; and Physicians for Human Rights
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