When Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services announced in 2019 that Polk and White Haven Centers, two large state-operated institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, ...

Dave Scott sobbed as he stood in the middle of a Waltham cemetery dotted with brick markers — not tombstones — differentiated only by numbers and not names, mourning the loss of his brother who he ...

Patients work on the roof of the Lima State Hospital. The institution opened in July 1915 and was intended to relieve the stress on smaller, overcrowded institutions elsewhere in Ohio. Photo courtesy ...

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, ...

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 ...