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[jason]

I was reading School of Shock: Inside the taxpayer-funded program that treats American kids like enemy combatants on the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center - Wikipedia. I had heard something about their use of shock treatment on children. I sort of ‘assumed’ that it would immediately be shut down, based on the logic that you can’t do to children in a treatment facility what you’re not allowed to do to adults in prison. Now I find out that though the program is under review, it is still running.

[Electroshock Therapy Used On Mentally Handicapped Children - DigitalJournal.com talks about how this aspect of the program is getting phased out, and how the state has tried to shut it down, and this link's only a month old.]

Comments

[francisb.livejournal.com]

I am glad somebody is drawing attention to this on a national scale. I sincerely wish that I were surprised, I am not however. Kids with severe disabilities are frequently treated in a manner that would not be allowed in a prison.

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

it sickens me... when I was digging, one of the supporters was pleased to say that their system worked. After enough shocks, her son can perform basic functions like picking up a cookie when told to. But then again, they're stoning 7 women for adultery in Iran at the moment according to the news. So it is all relative. Oh, but good point. America and Iran are both theocracies ("Theocracy is a form of government in which a 'god' or 'deity' is recognized as the supreme civil ruler.").