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Ruby Rogers; helped win key rights for mentally ill

By Bryan Marquard
Globe Staff / February 20, 2009

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In Turners Falls, nearly 100 miles west of where she spent decades confined in Boston psychiatric facilities, Ruby Rogers died quietly in a nursing home, a relatively anonymous end for a woman whose name is routinely invoked during Massachusetts court hearings involving the mentally ill. (Full article: 1138 words)

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