Three guards who were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Bridgewater State Hospital patient Joshua Messier have returned to work at the Department of Correction — each with ...

The verdicts came Monday from Plymouth Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke. Joshua Messier, a 23-year-old with a history of paranoid schizophrenia, assaulted a corrections officer on May 4 ...

Joshua Messier was a 23-year-old man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia. He heard voices and he often acted on those voices. He often struck medical staffers and in 2005, he was sent for ...

Martin F. Murphy, the special prosecutor in the case, said Joshua K. Messier was killed on the evening of May 4, 2009, as guards were strapping him down to a small bed by his wrists and ankles ...

Lisa Brown says there is finally justice for her late son Joshua Messier who was only 23 years old when he died while being restrained by guards at Bridgewater State Hospital six years ago.

She moved in for the trial of the three former corrections officers who were charged with involuntary manslaughter for killing her son, Joshua Messier, while trying to restrain him at Bridgewater ...

The guards were fired Thursday after an internal investigation into the death of 23-year-old Joshua Messier, state Department of Correction officials told The Boston Globe. Messier suffered a ...

John Raposo and George Billadeau came eight months after former state Attorney General Martha Coakley named a special prosecutor to look into Joshua Messier's death because of lingering questions ...

Three employees of Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts have been fired in connection to the patient death of Joshua Messier. Three employees of Massachusetts-based Bridgewater State ...

His death could've been avoided, as could that of Joshua Messier and others before him. Marino and Messier lived with mental illness. Neither was convicted of a crime, and both committed to ...

(AP) — Massachusetts officials have fired three correctional officers in connection with an inmate's death at Bridgewater State Hospital in 2009. The guards were fired Thursday after an internal ...

Messier suffered a heart attack after a half dozen guards strapped him to a small bed at the prison for mentally ill inmates.Correction Department spokesman Darren Duarte said disciplinary ...