by Disability Rights | 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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