The Judge Rotenberg Center is still active

I wrote fairly often about the center from 2007 to 2011. In 2011 the founder of the center retired when he was facing criminal charges stemming from the center's champining of “aversive” therapy, using pain or other negative stimuli to change behavior. Its signature approach is to apply a two-second electric shock to students’ skin. The center has received a number of negative reports from federal and state authorities as well as the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on torture.

Although the center is located in Massachusetts, its primary market is New York City; 90% of the center's students are from the city. including 29 who enrolled this year. It costs the city's taxpayers $30 million a year. The city and the state have tried various means to prevent its students from going to the center, but they have been unsuccessful.