New Jersey has new tools to hold accountable group homes for people with disabilities, including $25,000 fines for injuries ...

Children with intellectual disabilities are not only more likely to be victims of sexual abuse but are also more susceptible to its harmful effects. "We already knew that children with intellectual ...

For the past five years, Nick Battiola called his Disability Rights Wisconsin victim advocate, Pam Malin, any time he felt on the verge of a breakdown, whenever memories of the caregiver who became ...

The statistics are hard to hear, because they’re hard to believe. "Eighty-six percent of men and ninety-six percent of women with disabilities have experienced abuse at some point in their life," said ...

From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day. This story was commissioned by the River ...

A report by Disability Rights California and officials say detainees with disabilities inside the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Adelanto detention center are subjected to abuse and ...

MINUTES. RIO RANCHO TO PASEO EIGHT LOS LUNAS TO ALBUQUERQUE 17 STARTING NEXT MONTH, NEW MEXICANS WILL HAVE A NEW WAY TO REPORT SUSPECTED ABUSE OR NEGLECT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. JULY 1ST. PEOPLE ...