Mass. Locked Up People With Mental Illness For Decades. Now Advocates Want Their Stories Told – WBUR News

Co-sponsor Sen. Mike Barrett, of Lexington, says it’s important that we deal with all the injustices that might have been meted out.

“Each of these institutions, and we count 27 of them spread throughout Massachusetts, have a story of their own,” Barrett said. “And the human beings who were domiciled there, often without what we would now consider to be their civil rights, deserve to have their stories told,” he added.

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