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New Mexico Inmate COVID 19 Lawsuits
Collins & Collins, P.C. have taken hundreds of calls from inmates and their families relating to the Coronavirus over the past year. Unfortunately, we can’t do much more than provide some general…
March 14, 2021 -
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 -
Reclamaciones de Responsabilidad de Reclusos contra el Departamento Correccional de Nuevo México
Pregunta: ¿Pueden los reclusos demandar por lesiones que ocurren en las instalaciones del NMCD como resultado de la negligencia del NMCD y/o sus contratistas? Respuesta: Sí, los reclusos tienen los mismos derechos…
July 20, 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 -
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 -
Investors and Banks Dump Private Prison Industry, New Mexico Sticks Embraces It
There have been a number of stories over the last few years surrounding the abuses of immigrant detainees in private prison facilities. The coverage has shown a level of cruelty within this…
November 6, 2019 -
New Mexico Prison Osteomyelitis Epidemic Spells Medical Negligence
Many people look at a topic such the medical care of prison inmates with measured indifference or outright disdain. The underlying subtext reads, “they deserve what they get”. This broad social indifference…
October 4, 2019 -
Untreated and Negligently Treated Diabetes in New Mexico Prisons
Something we should all be concerned about Most folks don’t give prison healthcare much thought. They should. The costs of poor prison healthcare as remote as it sounds, affects all of us…
May 6, 2019
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