A mother has filed a lawsuit against a psychiatric institute claiming her son who has schizophrenia has been illegally kept in isolation or strapped to a bed for 70 per cent of his time at the ...

When Joanne Minich recently visited son Peter, 31, at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts, prison guards brought her to a locked cell that inmates call the "bird cage," where he was shackled ...

A Brookline mother who sued the state prisons department over what she called the illegal restraint of her son at a psychiatric facility has agreed to settle her lawsuit after the hospital said it ...

Despite lawsuits, years of complaints and a recent patient death that was ruled a homicide, advocates for the mentally ill say that, too often, Massachusetts treats those suffering from mental illness ...

Bridgewater State Hospital has checkered history in Massachusetts. April 1, 2014— -- When Joanne Minich recently visited son Peter, 31, at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts, prison ...

A Brookline woman filed a lawsuit against the state prisons department Monday, saying her 31-year-old son has been restrained for long periods at a state psychiatric hospital in violation of state law ...

BOSTON -- A Brookline woman filed a lawsuit against the state prisons department Monday, saying her 31-year-old son has been restrained for long periods at a state psychiatric hospital in violation of ...

Men never convicted of a crime denied reading, exercise or human contact. Peter Minich’s condition has deteriorated since spending 6,300 hours in solitary confinement, according to his mother, Joanne ...

(ABC News) -- When Joanne Minich recently visited son Peter, 31, at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts, prison guards brought her to a locked cell that inmates call the 'bird cage,' where he ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BOSTON (AP) — A Brookline woman filed a lawsuit against the state prisons ...

A Brookline woman filed a lawsuit against the state prisons department Monday, saying her 31-year-old son has been restrained for long periods at a state psychiatric hospital in violation of state law ...