{"id":1102,"date":"2014-09-26T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:29:51","slug":"patrick-unveils-overhaul-for-bridgewater-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2014\/09\/26\/patrick-unveils-overhaul-for-bridgewater-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Unveils Overhaul for Bridgewater Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2014\/09\/ryan_statehospital5_met.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1104\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2014\/09\/ryan_statehospital5_met.jpg\" alt=\"ryan_statehospital5_met\" width=\"960\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Above, Bridgewater State Hospital<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater State Hospital has been under fire after a patient died by the hands of several correctional officers while they were attempting to place him in restraints. The death, ruled a homicide, sparked an investigation into the hospital and the treatment of mentally ill prisoners. As a result, Deval Patrick has written up a plan that\u00a0consists of decreasing the use of restraints and isolation of patients\u00a0and hiring more properly trained clinicians that can effectively and appropriately handle mentally ill individuals. Many mental health advocates are in favor of this overhaul, grateful that patients will be able to get the help they truly need from a licensed clinician, instead of relying on correctional officers to do the job. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2014\/06\/17\/patrick-unveils-ambitious-reforms-for-troubled-bridgewater-state-hospital\/oKrugF1A9AKT195WTrkv2K\/story.html#\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Above, Bridgewater State Hospital &nbsp; Bridgewater State Hospital has been under fire after a patient died by the hands of several correctional officers while they were attempting to place him in restraints. The death, ruled a homicide, sparked an investigation into the hospital and the treatment of mentally ill prisoners. As a result, Deval Patrick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,24,34,17,2,8,6,3,31,4,9],"tags":[65,66,67,60,61],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-civil-liberties-union","category-civil-rights","category-constitutional-rights","category-corrections","category-court-decisions","category-legislation","category-local","category-prison-conditions","category-prison-reform","category-publications-and-advocacy","category-sentencing","tag-hospital","tag-mentally-ill","tag-prison","tag-prison-policy","tag-prison-reform-2","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}