After scathing report, Massachusetts prison officials maintain Bridgewater State Hospital is safe
The Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) is taking issue with a scathing report on conditions at Bridgewater State Hospital. The DOC maintains that the facility is a "safe and healthy environment for employees, visitors" and those in custody there. The Disability Law Center (DLC) issued a report last month that found that Bridgewater workers often use "chemical restraints" or seclusion on those in custody and that there are structural problems within the hospital buildings. "The DOC carefully reviewed the report and disagrees with DLC's allegations that the condition of the physical plant is unsafe, that DOC's mold remediation work has been deficient, and that care of Persons Served is contrary to state law," said DOC Commissioner Carol Mici's response to last month's report. Mici's response noted that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations reviewed Bridgewater in July 2021 and renewed Bridgew...