"When night time comes, you know, one of the worst things that happened was that superintendent was leaving the building, you know, and leaving the kids all unattended and they had big guys up there, coming down, beating us up, you know."

Richard Raymond’s life began in poverty and led to his being institutionalized at Pineland, Maine’s large institution for people with developmental disabilities. But the end of his story is one of resilience and of having choices for living a life on his own terms.

Find a full transcript of this podcast here: https://maineddc.org/transcript-richard-raymond