New Mexico: Justice for Predictable Tragedies
Justice for Predictable Tragedies
Letter to the Editor
Submitted October 24, 2012
VOR, a national organization advocating for high quality care and human rights for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, applauds the lawsuit featured in the article “Treated Like Product, Not People” (October 21, 2012).
Although saying “I told you so” when discussing disability policies is of little comfort to the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the provider ENMRSH, Inc. and New Mexico’s Department of Health, the alleged abuse and neglect at the heart of the suit is sadly predictable.
Across the country, states, including New Mexico, have embraced the “enterprise of giving people away,” turning a blind eye to the profound needs of those displaced from specialized residential programs in the name of “deinstitutionalization.”
