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 ...

Abdul was being held in a locked interview room at Bridgewater State Hospital when he was ordered into seclusion. At the height of what followed, four staffers designated as Therapeutic Safety ...

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 (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 third facility in town, Bridgewater State Hospital, has seen 15 new COVID-19 cases in December among prisoners and staff.

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 ...

Bridgewater State Hospital — a Massachusetts Department of Correction facility in Bridgewater — continues to illegally restrain patients and inadequately provide medical care during a mold ...

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 ...