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High school students with disabilities are getting a sub-par education or no education at all while doing time in adult prisons.
High school students with disabilities are getting a sub-par education or no education at all while doing time in adult prisons.
Adult prisons in New Jersey are routinely violating the rights of incarcerated high school students with disabilities, with some teens getting no education whatsoever.
Less than 20% of subway stations and 10% of curb cuts in NYC are accessible to people with mobility disabilities. DRA attorney Rebecca Rodgers says, “Twenty-six years after the ADA, there is simply no excuse.”
More than half of New York City’s police stations aren’t accessible to people with mobility disabilities.
Larry died unexpectedly. He chose to leave life on his own terms while he was capable and before he experienced further medical crises.
One of the nation’s most influential disability rights lawyers, Larry Paradis, cofounder and executive director of Disability Rights Advocates, has passed away.
Larry Paradis, the attorney and co-founder of Disability Rights Advocates who carved a pathway for the disabled in California through hundreds of class action lawsuits, died last week. He was 57.
City’s LinkNYC discriminates against the blind, lawsuit says.
Larry Paradis was a one of the country’s most talented, brilliant, and accomplished disability rights trail blazers. He also was a deeply good, decent, caring, and giving person, with the highest integrity. Larry broke down barriers all across this nation.
A new lawsuit says LinkNYC needs to be made more accessible for the blind.