Middlesex Replacement News Today

To the editor: I write in opposition to the Middlesex Replacement Facility. I am a former state hospital patient who has been subjected to restraints and seclusion innumerable times, both at VPCH and elsewhere. Restraints were ALWAYS punitive and a form of retribution never used to keep me or anyone else safer. Nurses lie about their need to use restraints “strictly for safety,” when in fact they use them in anger and because they get fed up with patients they perceive as difficult. I...