I grew up two towns over from the Belchertown State School, and just like with the roughly concurrent Catholic Church child sexual abuse situation, you'd hear stories that were so terrible you wouldn't let yourself think about them.
TelecomOneMassachusetts is unsealing records of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized. Advocates told me their stories should serve as warnings to us as demands to return to institutionalization are ramping up under Trump 2.0.