A Resurgence of Disability Institutions?

The Massachusetts Special Commission on State Institutions, the world’s first person with disability-led truth commission, released a groundbreaking report where it concluded that Massachusetts engaged in a pattern of practices to obscure its troubling legacy of mass institutionalization of persons with disabilities. Now, amid the specter of a return to regressive policies that enabled past systemic institutionalization of persons with disabilities, this event will help to ensure both policymakers and the public at large have learned history’s lessons to prevent a resurgence of institutionalized care.