The Disabilities Rights Center is working toward ending inadequate treatment and discrimination of individuals with disabilities in the adult corrections system. We represent a limited number of inmates who have specific questions related to their disability, such as access to assistive devices or for treatment for Hepatitis C. The DRC does not take cases relating to general medical care, or provider or treatment choice.

page last updated October 27, 2011

The DRC does not handle criminal cases. If you need a lawyer for your criminal case, see below.

Other Places to Go For Help
New Hampshire Bar Association has a lawyer referral program.
New Hampshire Public Defender
NH Department of Justice Victim Resources

9-2004: NH State Prison Access/Accommodation Case Settles

Resources

• Disabled and Leaving Prison: Social Security and Other Benefits PDF
• What Prisoners Need to Know About Social Security, from the Social Security Administration
• National Disability Rights Network (formerly NAPAS): Criminal Justice Issue Area
• PBS Frontline: The New Asylums
• Human Rights Watch Report: Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness, September 2003
• Reentry: The Tie That Binds Civil Legal Aid Attorneys and Public Defenders
• National Legal Aid and Defender Association
• The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has a section on diversion from incarceration and reentry
• Juvenile Justice Issues
• Probono.net has a section on prisoner rights: Information for lawyers who are providing legal assistance to prisoners with respect to the conditions of their confinement or their treatment by prison personnel
• American Civil Liberties Union: Prisoner Rights Project
• The Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
  • See esp. The Advocacy Handbook: A Guide for Implementing Recommendations of the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project