A viewing was held at Bridgewater State Hospital Wednesday in the trial of three former guards accused in the 2009 death of Joshua Messier. From left, the guards on trial are John Raposo, Derek ...

The Superior Court judge hearing the case and a coterie of lawyers toured the facility and the narrow, cinder-block cell where 23-year-old Joshua K. Messier lost his life.

Bridgewater State Hospital, located in southeastern Massachusetts, is a state facility housing the criminally insane and those whose sanity is being evaluated for the criminal justice system. It ...

Bridgewater is a medium-security facility, one where increasingly its designation as a “hospital” for those criminally charged or civilly committed seems more euphemism than reality.

In 1966 Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane gave filmmaker Frederick Wiseman unprecedented access. Wiseman documented staff at the Massachusetts hospital herding patients, often ...

Joshua Messier died after a scuffle with guards at Bridgewater State Hospital in May 2009. Messier's death was ruled a homicide, and an autopsy found blunt force injuries to nearly every part of ...

Bridgewater State Hospital is a medium security prison hospital for criminally-charged inmates who are mentally ill or defendants in criminal cases undergoing observation. There are about 250 men ...

Prison guards aren’t mental health professionals and that needs to change at Bridgewater State Hospital, which a new report recommends shifting away from the Department of Correction to the ...

“Bedlam” is also a film, and it premieres Monday night at 10 p.m. on PBS’ Independent Lens (check your local listings). It helps bring American audiences up to speed on their mental health ...