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Public
Defender Commission Could Bolster Fairness from the Albuquerque Journal, Sunday,
February 17, 2008.
House OK's Bill To Detach Public Defender from Governor from the Albuquerque Journal, Thursday, February 07, 2008.
Read the latest article to appear in both the Albuquerque Journal and Albuquerque Tribune on Richardson's efforts to bring universal health care to New Mexicans.
Learn more about the recent public meeting on access to health care at the University of New Mexico Hospital and the new policy changes at the Hospital in the article "UNM Asks Activists To Lobby State for Funding," published in the Albuquerque Journal. For additional information concerning the provision of interpretation services at health care institutions in our state, read the article, "Health Advocate: Language barrier to blame for poor care," from The New Mexican.
Read more about the problems facing New
Mexico's Public Defender system in the article "Advocates Say Poor
Are Serving More Time in N.M. Jails," recently published in the Albuquerque
Journal.
Read and learn more about recent House Bill
348 that proposed an Independent Public Defender Commission to help run
the New Mexico Public Defender Department: Defense Lawyers May Get
New Boss and Give
Defenders Independence in the Albuquerque
Journal, and On the Defensive
from the Santa Fe Reporter.
Read the Santa
Fe Reporter's recent article, "The Defense Doesn't Rest",
and the need for increased staffing in the Public Defender Department, as determined by
the 2007 Workload Assement Study.
Watch the New
Mexico Center on Law and Poverty's Medicaid Integrity Project
video:.