Reply #153: This school and the legal history behind it is amazing, so thanks

[Jefferson23]

again for the info.

From your second link:

In 1991 IARET member Matthew Israel, who founded and directs the Behavior Research Institute's operations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, felt that IARET's advocacy efforts could be enhanced. In a 3-page letter, he suggested that members put a pre-composed letter on file: "We could then individually address the letters to each addressee, personalize each letter for the number of the bill or regulation in question, and then send the letters back to you for your review, signature, and mailing." Israel promised that BRI staff would donate, in their spare time, secretarial and organizational skills.

Coincidentally, Israel's letter also reminded IARET members to write against an anti-aversives bill pending in Massachusetts. The bill did not pass, and Israel's Behavior Research Institute continued to treat students with disabilities with manacles, 4-point restraints, weeks and months of isolation, and up to 200 electroshocks a day via a powerful, unprecedented remote-control device, the Graduated Electronic Decelerator (GED), which is worn 24 hours a day, every day, and which has been reported to cause burns on the skin of about a third of the students against whom it is used.

How anyone can defend this is beyond me.