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The state’s mistreatment of the disabled dead
In 1973, a 17-year-old developmentally disabled boy named John Scott died from edema in the Fernald State School, a squalid ...
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State Police left decades’ worth of confidential case files at old Fernald school in Waltham
The shuttered state school attracted ... with the Globe. The Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services was required to remove all of its sensitive documents from Fernald after Waltham ...
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Firefighters battling blaze in former school building in Waltham
Massachusetts, on Saturday. The fire was reported shortly after 10 a.m. at 200 Trapelo Road, the address of the former Fernald State School. The Cambridge Fire Department said it was providing ...