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State Ordered to Provide Disabled Inmate with Motorized Wheelchair
New York Law Journal ^
| March 15, 2017
| Joel Stashenko
Posted on 03/15/2017 5:01:39 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
ALBANY - Denying an inmate a motorized wheelchair is discriminatory under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, a federal judge has ruled.
Northern District Judge Mae D'Agostino found that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision...failed to show that there were such safety risks in giving Nathaniel Wright the electric wheelchair that they outweighed his right to have the device....
Wright, 55, will complete a five-year sentence from Monroe County for first-degree sexual abuse next month.
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KEYWORDS: judge; offender; sex; wheelchair
Yeah, you read that right. A federal judge has ruled a prison violated the ADA by not giving a convicted a sex offender a motorized wheelchair.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Meanwhile our vets make do with crappy crutches and busted up wheelchairs.
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posted on
03/15/2017 5:06:28 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
a prison violated the ADA by not giving a convicted a sex offender a motorized wheelchair.
= = =
Are things looking better ‘inside’?
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posted on
03/15/2017 5:10:13 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
To: Behind Liberal Lines
If the “judge” want the criminal to have a motorized wheelchair, why doesn’t she buy him one? ***hole.
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posted on
03/15/2017 5:10:48 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
FUNY and your federal retards.
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posted on
03/15/2017 5:15:31 PM PDT
by
soycd
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Well since it is so safe and all I sure hope the battery doesn’t short out and cause a fire right under his arse or anything.
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posted on
03/15/2017 5:15:45 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Behind Liberal Lines
The wheelchair is not a significant issue.
Five years for first degree sexual assault is an issue.
To: Hieronymus; VampireStateNY; governsleastgovernsbest; gaspar; NativeNewYorker; Atticus; ...
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posted on
03/15/2017 5:33:34 PM PDT
by
Behind Liberal Lines
(Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Marathoners can go 26 miles in a manually operated wheelchair yet the taxpayers have to buy an electric one for an inmate?
This is nuts !
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posted on
03/15/2017 5:42:03 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I wonder how many hundreds of deadly shanks will be manufactured from the various parts of that wheel chair.
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posted on
03/15/2017 5:53:12 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Liberals think in propaganda)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Do prison cells have electric outlets?
Be a shame if he had no way to charge it.
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:11:27 PM PDT
by
ZOOKER
(Until further notice the /s is implied...)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Nathaniel Wesley Owens, 26, of Muskogee is charged in Muskogee County District Court with child sexual abuse after a nine-year-old girl told police that on multiple occasions, he molested her. The girl, in a forensic interview, said Owens touched her vagina and anus and forced her to “bounce” on his penis. The offenses occurred between June and December of 2016.
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posted on
03/15/2017 7:24:51 PM PDT
by
Freedom_Is_Not_Free
(The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.it is hugh and series)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
He was “abled” enough to do the sex crime, Judge.
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posted on
03/16/2017 8:00:59 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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