{"id":178374,"date":"2018-12-19T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/19\/why-are-these-folks-not-in-jail\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:31:00","slug":"why-are-these-folks-not-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/19\/why-are-these-folks-not-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are These Folks Not in Jail?"},"content":{"rendered":"
It appears that some schools are routinely fitting disabled students with shock belts<\/a>.<\/div>\n

This is evil beyond belief:<\/p>\n

An international body entrusted with upholding human rights across the Americas has called for an immediate ban on the controversial use of electric shocks on severely disabled children in a school outside Boston. <\/p>\n

The Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts, is believed to be the only school in the world that routinely inflicts high-powered electric shocks as a form of punishment on vulnerable children and adults. About 47 of its students are currently subjected to the \u201ctreatment\u201d<\/a>, which involves individuals being zapped with electric currents far more powerful than those discharged by stun guns. <\/p>\n

Disability rights campaigners have tried for decades to stop the practice, which the school\u2019s administrators call \u201caversive therapy\u201d. So far the institution has managed to fend off all opposition, arguing that electric shocks are an acceptable way of discouraging harmful habits. <\/p>\n

Now the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued a rare formal notice known as \u201cprecautionary measures\u201d that calls for immediate cessation of the electric shocks. <\/p>\n

In a seven-page resolution<\/a>, the Washington-based panel says that the practice poses a \u201cserious impact on the rights\u201d of the vulnerable children at the school, \u201cparticularly on their right to personal integrity which may be subjected to a form of torture\u201d. <\/p>\n

The commission cites the work<\/a> in 2013 of the then UN monitor on torture, Juan M\u00e9ndez, who found JRC\u2019s electric shock technique was a potential violation of the UN convention against torture and other international laws. It also notes several federal agencies and professional groups have called for a ban on \u201caversive techniques\u201d on grounds they can cause psychological trauma.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They are torturing students, and it must be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that some schools are routinely fitting disabled students with shock belts. This is evil beyond belief: An international body entrusted with upholding human rights across the Americas has called for an immediate ban on the controversial use of electric shocks on severely disabled children in a school outside Boston. The Judge Rotenberg Center …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[397,364,424,372],"class_list":["post-178374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-education","tag-evil","tag-special-education","tag-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}