The Belchertown State School in Western Massachusetts, once described as 'barbaric' and 'a hell hole,' was a place of horror for its patients. The school, which opened in 1922, housed around 700 ...

For 70 years, Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded housed ... and soon became home to over 700 young patients. With its Colonial Revival buildings sprawled across a verdant 845-acre ...

And while some have been eerie, none have left an impression like the Belchertown State School for the Feeble Minded. Given the history of mistreatment of its patients, I had no idea what to expect.

Belchertown State School was closed in 1992 following a federal ... and at other such institutions throughout the country to "patients" like Vitkus. "Cases of abuse and neglect still occur in ...

The Department of Mental Health is opening a new in-patient facility, the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital, in July. This history is invisible, like the greater issue of care for the mentally ...

That woman was Darlene Rameau, who’d been a patient at Belchertown State School as a child. It took some time for Orzechowski to convince Rameau to let him interview her for a book and to build ...

Belchertown State School in Massachusetts was closed in ... Healthy teeth were often removed from handicapped patients to make feeding them easier. Benjamin Ricci, who’s son Robert lived ...

BELCHERTOWN, Mass. (WWLP) – After being abandoned for 25 years, an empty lot in Belchertown will be the new home of an assisted living residence. The assisted living center will be called ...

BELCHERTOWN, Mass. (WWLP) – Another portion of the former Belchertown State School will soon be redeveloped. MassDevelopment said the Belchertown Day School Inc. has purchased two acres of land ...