Scope and Content: In 1983 the Dept. of Mental Health was sanctioned by the U.S. District Court for inadequately controlling reports of restraint and seclusion of patients institutionalized under the department’s jurisdiction. The Evaluation Section in its Division of Mental Health Services (called the Evaluation Section of the Division of Policy and Planning from 1987) was instructed to develop the forms, maintain the data, and publish the results of restraint and seclusion reports for public and private institutions (St 1984, c 464). A public report, omitting patient identifiers, was required. Both state mental health and mental retardation institutions were included in these reports until St 1986, c 599 removed the responsibility for mental retardation from the Dept. of Mental Health and established a new Dept. of Mental Retardation.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: From the records of the Governor’s Commission on Mental Retardation, transferred to  Archives, 1994-2008. For details consult the Massachusetts Archives series control file
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