Issue Area: Criminal Justice

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.

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 Attorney General Victim/Witness Services

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

Resources

Disabled and Leaving Prison: Social Security and Other Benefits PDF Version Text Version
What Prisoners Should Know About Social Security, from the Social Security Administration
National Disability Rights Network (formerly NAPAS): Criminal Justice Issue Area
David Ferleger, Esq.: Selected Cases on Issue of Applicability of Americans with Disabilities Act to Prisons
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 Ending the Criminalization of People with Mental Illnesses
National Academy for Equal Justice, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University
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

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Main Section The Law Resources 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. 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 Attorney General Victim/Witness Services 9-2004: NH State Prison Access/Accommodation Case Settles Resources Disabled and Leaving Prison: Social Security and Other Benefits PDF Version Text Version What Prisoners Should Know About Social Security, from the Social Security Administration National Disability Rights Network (formerly NAPAS): Criminal Justice Issue Area David Ferleger, Esq.: Selected Cases on Issue of Applicability of Americans with Disabilities Act to Prisons 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 Ending the Criminalization of People with Mental Illnesses National Academy for Equal Justice, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University 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

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