Erick Choez of Brooklyn and David Soriano of New York play pool as a reward for good behavior on Rewards Street inside Judge Rotenberg Center The...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Erick Choez of Brooklyn, 17, (R) and David Soriano of New York, 17, play pool as a reward for good behavior on Rewards Street inside Judge Rotenberg Center. The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) is a private residential school located in Canton, Massachusetts, serving students and adults with severe developmental disabilities and emotional or behavior disorders. The entire center appears non-clinical, and is a warm and colorful place to live and learn. Most of the rooms are even painted by commissioned artists and the entire center is filled with expensive art and furniture. Yet the JRC is seen as controversial: While the intensive behavioral therapy involves no medications, the center employs a rewards and punishment system, with punishments in the form skin shock therapy, administered through a backpack or fanny pack that the student wears. | Location: (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)"}