BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251010T2004Z-1760126699.8545-EO-727786-1@10.73.7.237 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260523T032014Z CREATED:20251010T193733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260323T211543Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T122000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T132000 SUMMARY: A Resurgence of Disability Institutions? DESCRIPTION: The Massachusetts Special Commission on State Institutions\, t he world’s first person with disability-led truth commission\, released a g roundbreaking report where it concluded that Massachusetts engaged in a pat tern of practices to obscure its troubling legacy of mass institutionalizat ion of persons with disabilities. Now\, amid the specter of a return to reg ressive policies that enabled past […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Massachusetts Special Commission on St ate Institutions\, the world's first person with disability-led truth commi ssion\, released a groundbreaking report where it concluded that Massachuse tts engaged in a pattern of practices to obscure its troubling legacy of ma ss institutionalization of persons with disabilities. Now\, amid the specte r of a return to regressive policies that enabled past systemic institution alization of persons with disabilities\, this event will help to ensure bot h policymakers and the public at large have learned history’s lessons to pr event a resurgence of institutionalized care.

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