The correction (no pun intended) has not been made, as yet to the minor error of labeling Southeaster Correction Center (SECC) as Bridgewater State Hospital. Strangely enough, the dilapidated SECC, built before the turn of the century, was the ORIGINAL Bridgewater State Hospital and the subject of the extremely sad and moving documentary, "The Titicut Follies", the only film ever banned in the US for reasons other than obscenity or national security.

I had the displeasure of serving part of a 3 1/2 year drug sentence there javascript:void(0)and I was also "committed" there for 90 days of involuntary "treatment." I was tortured, stripped naked, and forced to exist in an empty concrete room with no plumbing or light for 3 weeks. THAT was the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' idea of "treatment." As a prison there, years later, I was harassed and fought with the guards, visited with my family in a rat-infested visiting room, and locked up in the "hole" for extended periods.

I was there for the attacks on 9/11 and there was violence against Muslim prisoners. Shortly after I was transferred to a lower security setting (against the recommendation of the administrators of SECC), the pit was closed down.

It does not sit idle, however. It serves as a twisted "training ground" for the parasitic prison guards to further hone their sadistic skills. Thankfully, the lost dungeons, tiny brick cells without plumbing, and inhumane conditions no longer house prisoners, who have been transferred to higher-tech, sterile Hells around Massachusetts.

Take care all!
JJW