Consider This: Families And Advocates Pushing State To Reckon With Past Abuse At Mental Institutions

For years and years, many people in Massachusetts dealing with mental illness and disabilities were kept apart from society, locked away in state institutions. Now, decades after those institutions were shut down, families and advocates are pushing the state to reckon with the abuses many patients endured.

Consider This co-host Arun Rath speaks with WBUR reporter Steve Brown, who has been looking into this.