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We Honor Judith Ellen Heumann, Disability Rights Activist 1947-2023

We Honor Judith Ellen Heumann, Disability Rights Activist 1947-2023

by Mathew Freeman | Mar 6, 2023 | News

We are saddened by the passing of Ms. Heumann but celebrate the incredible life of such a great champion of disability rights.  She was a brilliant and courageous leader.   On August 5, 2020, DRNM hosted a showing of the film Crimp Camp.  Through the efforts of...

ACLU and Disability Rights New Mexico Bring Lawsuit Against Corrections Department To Provide Life Saving Medication For Individuals Who Are Incarcerated

by Disability Rights NM | Dec 19, 2022 | Litigation, News

People with opioid use disorders in New Mexico prisons experience painful and life-threatening consequences when the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) denies them access to medically necessary, physician-prescribed medications while incarcerated. The American...

Kevin S. Settlement and Implementation for Foster Youth

by Disability Rights NM | Nov 16, 2022 | Litigation, News

Attorneys and Advocates Issue Statements in Response to Kevin S. Settlement Co-Neutrals’ Report on Status of Implementation Advocates Say “New Mexico’s Children Continue to Suffer From the State’s Delays and Failures” – Call Upon Governor Lujan Grisham to Give Her...

Corrections Department Told TO Provide Special Education and Related Services

by Disability Rights NM | Aug 3, 2022 | Advocacy, Litigation, News

On behalf of students with disabilities who are incarcerated in state-run adult prison facilities, DRNM filed an administrative complaint to the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) regarding the prison system’s failure to provide special education and related...
Historic Jackson lawsuit comes to an end

Historic Jackson lawsuit comes to an end

by Disability Rights NM | May 12, 2022 | Litigation, News

DRNM filed the Jackson lawsuit in 1987 to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who were institutionalized in state facilities in Los Lunas and Fort Stanton. After a long trial we were able to convince the federal court that the residents...
Historic Jackson lawsuit comes to an end

Medically Fragile Children Denied Necessary In-Home Nursing

by Disability Rights NM | May 3, 2022 | Litigation, News

On April 28, 2022, Disability Rights New Mexico, alongside our litigation partners from New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty and private counsel, filed M.G. v. Scrase on behalf of all medically fragile children under the age of 21 who qualify to receive private duty...
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  • Stop the School-to-Jail Pipeline in New Mexico
  • ACLU and Disability Rights New Mexico Bring Lawsuit Against Corrections Department To Provide Life Saving Medication For Individuals Who Are Incarcerated
  • Kevin S. Settlement and Implementation for Foster Youth
  • Corrections Department Told TO Provide Special Education and Related Services

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    Albuquerque, NM 87111
    Office:  (505) 256-3100
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    The Disability Rights New Mexico’s office is in the James Jackson Center for Disability Rights building. The Center is just east of the traffic light intersection of Juan Tabo Blvd., NE, and Juan Tabo Place, NE, between Comanche and Montgomery.

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