Category / Civil Rights / Prison Medical Neglect
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New Mexico Civil Rights Bill: Letter to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee
Below is the slightly modified text of an email I delivered today to all Senate members of the Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee. The letter was written in anticipation of the…
February 25, 2021 -
Statute of Limitations New Mexico Section 1983 Civil Rights Claims
The statute of limitations (SOL) is a deadline within which a lawsuit must be filed. As the acronym suggest, if you miss the SOL on your case, your lawsuit will be barred…
August 20, 2020 -
Medical Personnel in NMCD Face Challenges in Claims for Failed Response to COVID-19
Question: Do medical providers working in New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) correctional facilities have possible legal claims for lack of preparation and response to COVID-19? Answer: Its possible but they would be…
April 9, 2020 -
NMCD Guards and Staff: Legal Claims for Lack of Preparation and Response to COVID-19
Question: Do New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) correctional guards and staff have possible legal claims for lack of preparation and response to COVID-19/Coronavirus? Answer: Perhaps but it depends on the whether the…
March 26, 2020 -
New Mexico Corrections Department Unfit to Handle COVID-19 Crisis
Question: Is New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) fit to handle COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in its facilities? Answer: As with any question dealing with the competence of NMCD or its contractors, this was purely…
March 18, 2020 -
Utter Indifference and Incompetence at NMCD Endangering New Mexicans
Question: Is the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) of taken appropriate precautions to protect against spread of Coronavirus in the prisons? Answer: Of course not. That was a purely rhetorical question. NMCD…
March 16, 2020 -
Cruel and Dangerous Presumption of Malingering in Prisoner Medical Care
Malingering is basically faking an illness in order to achieve some non-medical goal. Reading inmate files and medical records, it is apparent that inmates are routinely presumed to be malingering even when…
December 31, 2019 -
La Escasez de Personal en las Prisiones de Nuevo México Contribuye al Suicidio de Reclusos
Normas, Políticas y Procedimientos para la Prevención del Suicidio en Prisión Las políticas del Departamento de Correcciones de Nuevo México (NMCD) para la prevención del suicidio presumiblemente siguen las políticas y normas…
December 26, 2019 -
Medical Torture in New Mexico Prisons
The right to be free of inhumane denial of medical care as well as the provision of medical care in a cruel and inhumane manner are addressed by numerous international human rights…
November 21, 2019 -
Solitary Confinement by any name is Solitary Confinement
The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has engaged in something of a shell game around the topic of solitary confinement. Specifically, they seem to believe that by referring to the practice as…
November 16, 2019