Across Massachusetts, there are thousands of unmarked graves holding people who lived and died in the state institutions that housed people with mental, intellectual and developmental disabilities ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a wide-ranging investigation into Illinois’ treatment of people with developmental disabilities, examining whether the state provides adequate resources for ...

Connecticut, which parades itself as a beacon of progress, hides a shameful reality. In 2023, a non-verbal resident of Southbury Training School—a Connecticut state facility for people with ...

FILE - Maura Healey speaks during a taping of Boston Public Radio at GBH's Boston Public Library Studio in this 2019 file photo. Certain records from the tens of thousands of people with mental, ...

Human bones discovered by archaeologists offer a window into the lives of Middle Age citizens and upends previously held beliefs about the treatment of disabled people in ancient times, a study ...

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It was thought that disabled people were looked down upon in the Middle Ages, but a new discovery disputes that belief. Human bones discovered by archaeologists offer a window into the lives of Middle ...