Last week, a watchdog group released a damning report about the Massachusetts Department of Corrections’ Bridgewater State Hospital — a psychiatric hospital for men who have been accused or ...

But it has. In April, a private firm hired by the Baker administration replaced almost all the guards at Bridgewater State Hospital with a specially trained security force, along with ...

Lawyers for three mental health patients at Bridgewater State Hospital filed a class-action lawsuit against the facility Thursday, arguing that more than half of the patients there are being ...

Critics who claim Bridgewater State Hospital is grievously failing the mentally ill men held there made an impassioned case for shifting oversight of the facility from the state’s Department of ...

Bridgewater State Hospital is more like a prison than a mental health hospital, lawmakers are being told. Members of the Legislature’s Justice Reform Caucus said as it is currently run and ...

Bridgewater State Hospital at the Massachusetts Department of Correction in Bridgewater, Mass. (Lisa Poole/AP) A new report found little has been done to correct problems at Bridgewater State ...

Bridgewater State Hospital (BSH) is a medium security men’s prison owned by the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) that houses people with serious psychiatric needs that have pending ...

The legislation does not name a specific property or facility. The bill is based on legislation Patrick filed in early July in the wake of revelations about Bridgewater State Hospital, where there ...

DOC described the facility as a 40-year-old prefabricated modular structure located on a campus that also includes Bridgewater State Hospital, the Massachusetts Treatment Center and the Old Colony ...

BRIDGEWATER - An advocacy group for the disabled says conditions are inhumane and unacceptable at a state hospital for mental patients accused of crimes in Massachusetts. Several people who have ...