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 state is baring the history of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized.

The Mansfield Training School has been closed for more than 30 years. A team of researchers from the University of Connecticut is working to uncover what happened at the controversial institution that ...

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, ...

This story has been updated. English professor Brenda Brueggemann had driven by the memorial stone, the grassy grove and the architectural shells of the shuttered institution every day for years on ...

Alex Green authored legislation to create the Special Commission on State Institutions, serves as its vice chair, and teaches at Harvard Kennedy School. Katherine Benson is cochair of the commission ...

Are institutions really that bad? If the history of people with disabilities is any indication, the answer is no. As someone who's been studying the history of mental hospitals for well over two ...