Disability rights activists are engaging in a renewed effort to ban an aversive therapy — electric shock therapy — that, despite being condemned as torture by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, is still practiced at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts. The center is a day and residential school for students with intellectual disabilities. 
Contributing writer Darin Zullo joins us on The Scope Podcast to discuss his article “Self-advocates lead movement against Judge Rotenberg Center’s controversial skin shocks.”
Zullo won a Best of SNO award for his article, which you can read at thescopeboston.org. 
This episode was produced, hosted, and edited by Rebeca Pereira with reporting by Darin Zullo. 
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