Mansfield Training School and Hospital was a state run facility which provided institutionalized care and education for the developmentally disabled.
The Mansfield Training School was a state run facility to care for and educate the mentally and developmentally disabled. One of dozens of such institutions which sprang up over New England, MTS was initially founded to segregate clients who were mentally retarded, epileptic, or deemed mentally aberrant from the rest of the society. It was not, however, an asylum for the criminally insane. For 76 years, MTS cared for its clients, peaking with a population over 2000. However, amid reports of staff abuse, a crushing Department of Justice report outlining negligent care, and a federal lawsuit, State of Connecticut was forced to close the facility in April 1993.
