People with disabilities are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime. Federal funding to bring their abusers to justice is dwindling.

Police work was no longer an option for Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy George Kluchonic. Kluchonic was accused in 2001 of trying to destroy evidence: patrol car videos that showed him scuffling with a ...

Responding to user requests, Twitter is updating its platform to explicitly allow reporting of abusive or harassing tweets targeting people with disabilities. The social media giant said this week ...

MILFORD - The Disability Law Center issued a report Thursday finding abuse and neglect by staff at the Evergreen Center, a residential school for youths with disabilities, ages 6 to 22. In response to ...

Disability Rights New York is investigating a private residential school where students allegedly subjected to physical abuse and inhuman living conditions Disability Rights New York filed a lawsuit ...

Two weeks after the NY Times found that virtually most retired Long Island Rail Road employees since 2000 have successfully applied for disability payments--at a cost of $250 million in federal funds- ...

The nation was shocked earlier this year when cell phone videos emerged showing employees at a Texas institution forcing residents with disabilities to fight each other in an overnight “fight club.” ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Tuesday marked the first step in a crackdown on the abuse of disability parking placards. It will continue through the end of the year, when a new law takes effect, making it tougher ...

Katie Price with her son Harvey leaves Portcullis House in London after giving evidence to the Commons Petitions Committee where she called for online abuse to be made a specific offence. (Photo by ...

Four officers tackled me. I had played up the day before so they were trying to teach me a lesson. The senior officer stood on my jaw while the other hit my head in and restrained me. They said, ‘You ...

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