Torturing People with Disabilities in U.S.A

"Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) has filed a report and urgent appeal with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture alleging that the Judge Rotenberg Center for the disabled, located in Massachusetts, violates the UN Convention against Torture.
The rights group submitted their report this week, titled "Torture not Treatment: Electric Shock and Long-Term Restraint in the United States on Children and Adults with Disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center," after an in-depth investigation revealed use of restraint boards, isolation, food deprivation and electric shocks in efforts to control the behaviors of its disabled and emotionally troubled students. Findings in the MDRI report include the center's practice of subjecting children to electric shocks on the legs, arms, soles of feet and torso -- in many cases for years -- as well as some for more than a decade. Electronic shocks are administered by remote-controlled packs attached to a child's back called a Graduated Electronic Decelerators (GEI)."
Read more here:http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/05/mdri-stop-the-torture-at-judge-rotenberg-center/

Thanks to Rainlillie at Great Minds Think Like Me! http://greatmindsthinklikemerainlillie.blogspot.com/ for bring this to my attention.
We are becoming more and more, "Every state for themselves," mentality in this country. I don't like it. One America. One people. One Constitution.