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camp myles standish
Photohunter:
I don't think I could handle seeing what went on when they were open. Much too sad. When I am walking around these places just the feeling of what might have been going on is almost too much to handle. Current reports of people coming forward talking about patient experimentation (including radiation testing) confirms that feeling. The way I look at it is "If it is physically possible to do, somewhere someone is doing it"
Even though in the scale of things you were probably around after the time that the state had free reign to torture, abuse, and experiment I bet you still have quite a story to tell.
military nut:
andrew my tenure for the state started in 86. when i started there was still a free reign on alot of abusive behavior. suicides in 86 and 87 brought sweeping changes to alot of things. the bachman laws(seclusion and restraint) brought alot of eyes and ears to the state faculitys. i came in at the end of an era where the officers ruled with an iron fist and i saw many let go because their free reign wasnt tolerated. sadly i believe the dmh/dmr hospitals were as bad even though they didnt deal with the criminal element. the best thing that happened where i worked was the no longer accepting of section 13 patients from other st hospitals. its was absolutely apauling to me that you would mix murderers and rapists in with people whos only crime was mental illness. i was part of the transition teams that got all those section 13 patients back to their previous hospitals.they got them out of bridgewater by the end of 91, that also signaled the closing of alot of the st hospitals around the state as we know it. my job was truely an intresting one to say the least but im for sure glad i no longer have to deal in that human misery.
nut
Photohunter:
That's unbelievable. It's also sad that most of these people didn't have anyone on the outside to dispute these actions.
I read a report about a currently functioning hospital in MA that in the past tested the affects of giving patients high levels of radiation in there food. That was a project that must have gone much higher than the state level.
My grandfather lives in that immediate area and has since post WW2. His brother was a patient of that hospital and committed suicide in that hospital. He knows what happened but refuses to discuss it under any circumstances.
These are the events that we know about. I can only imagine what else went on.
Met. State has two mortuaries. One standard in the medical building (I assume for determining cause of death and general handling of bodies) There is also a mortuary "lab" in it's own building, on the very back side of the property, in the woods. You could have been a member of the staff and never know it was there. I don't think I want to know what went on there.
Deeper in the woods is a very large, brick furnace. This was clearly used for cremation. What the f**k! Did the state not have to account for all the hospital population? Could a mentally ill patient just disappear without explanation or accountability?
Security doesn't throw us out because we are a nuisance. They throw us out because if you spend enough time there you will put the pieces together enough to understand that some really bad s**t went on there.
cobalt:
my great aunt used to live in the myles standish area very close to where the base would come to be. (my family is from taunton, and i am actualy related to the former mayor.) her family was forced to move just before the base was constructed, she later worked in the school for 40 years, my grandfather was also involed in the construction of one of the buildings of the school itself (i think it was the nurses dorms but im not sure)
having been to the school myself i have to say it is my favorite place to go now, the feeling you get when you are in there is amazing, id like to go and spend a whole day there, but im to woried about getting cought. it would be great to get permision to go inside...or make a security guard friend...
military nut:
cobalt i get the same feeling of wanting to spend time there. the security guards there are pretty decent they let many people walk dogs through there and ive even seen rollerbladers. if you dont get caught going into a building you can pretty much as an individual explore all day. groups may be another matter. ive met several people during my research to reconstruct a then and now picture history of the camp and it seems alot of people were involved in the building of the camp. i learned from my mother my own grandfather was involved in making the camp he layed down hot top(what they called it then) blacktop for roads and helped pour alot of the concrete for the water treatment faculity. i recently found the water treatment faculity and as a teen i had partyed at the spot we as kids called the domes. its a very historical piece of land that has many tidbits for explorers to feed off of. between whats left of the camp, and the state school ive spent many hours just wandering and taking pics
nut
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