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Update: 6/20/2013

Jun 20, 2013deafinprisonorg6 CommentsDigest Posts#JusticeForFelix, #Keep ASL In Schools, ABC News, ASL Meetup, BitcoDavid, Bugs Bunny, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Errata, Marsha Graham

By BitcoDavid Here at DeafInPrison.com, we’re not above admitting to a mistake. After all, we make so few of them. But alas, to err is Human. Yesterday, we posted the story of a 12 year-old girl who was denied the right to use ASL on a New Jersey school bus. Well, it turns out that

In a Related Story…

Jun 19, 2013deafinprisonorg12 CommentsNews, ReBlogs#JusticeForFelix, #Keep ASL In Schools, ABC News, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Facebook, JeanFAndrews, New Jersey, Sign language

By BitcoDavid Our contributor, Jean F. Andrews wrote this as a response to a comment on her last post. After reading it, I thought our readers who had not seen the original comment thread, would be interested in it. It may be useful to those of us who are not parents of Deaf children –

Guilty! Of Maroonism in the First Degree!

Jun 17, 2013deafinprisonorg9 CommentsHumor#JusticeForFelix, BitcoDavid, Colorado, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Deposit account, Stupid Criminals, Taser

By BitcoDavid Here at DeafInPrison.com, we write a lot about innocent people who don’t deserve the prison sentences they’re serving, but it is true that some people really do deserve to be in prison. I have a close friend who often argues that judges should employ some sort of doubling die – a method by

A First for Florida Deaf Prisoner Felix Garcia

Jun 17, 2013deafinprisonorg21 CommentsFelix Garcia Case#JusticeForFelix, American Sign Language, BitcoDavid, Deaf Studies, DeafInPrison.com, Education, Hearing impairment, Pat Bliss, Prison

By Pat Bliss [This article has been edited to remove the specific names of the researcher and her institution, by request of the original copyright holder – Ed.] Fist, let me tell you that the clemency action is in motion and the interview article I mentioned in my last update, is on hold due to

Casualties of our Educational System: The Illiterate Deaf Inmate

Jun 17, 2013deafinprisonorg14 CommentsEditorials#JusticeForFelix, Child of deaf adult, Deaf Culture, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Education, English language, JeanFAndrews, Literacy, Sign language

By Jean F. Andrews Teaching a deaf child how to read and write is an area that has perplexed befuddled and flummoxed deaf educators for hundreds of years. Why is reading so difficult to teach? What is it about the alphabetic code of English traps deaf children, youth and adults into lives of illiteracy? Is

Super Huge Digest Post – 6/14/2013

Jun 14, 2013deafinprisonorg1 CommentDigest Posts#JusticeForFelix, AlterNet, ASL Meetup, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Marsha Graham, Orange Is the New Black, Piper Kerman, Shanna Groves

By BitcoDavid OK. Spark up a Cohiba and get settled in. Books and Movies We recently did a review of the book, Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman. Well, Netflix is planning a streamed television series based on the book. As many of you may be aware, Netflix is working to position themselves

Happy Birthday Miranda

Jun 13, 2013deafinprisonorg1 CommentEditorials, News#JusticeForFelix, Arizona, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Ernesto Miranda, Miranda, Miranda Warning, Right to silence, United States Supreme Court

By BitcoDavid A huge digest post is in the can, for later on today. And I’ve been working on tons of projects offsite, that I think you will find interesting and worthy. But I wanted to get this up in time, and on its own. Today way back in 1966, the SCOTUS ruled for the defendant

In A Prison Times Three

Jun 9, 2013deafinprisonorg7 CommentsEditorials#JusticeForFelix, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Deafness, JeanFAndrews, Prison, Robert Frost, Teacher, To Kill a Mockingbird, YouTube

By Jean F. Andrews While some children learn to read effortlessly and on their own, I had to wait until the first grade. After my teacher taught me the 26 letters of the alphabet with the sounds they make, and taught me 20 to 30 sight words, she handed me a primer, my first book.

Cindy the Pooch – Public Enemy

Jun 9, 2013deafinprisonorg2 CommentsNews#JusticeForFelix, AlterNet, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Dog, Saving Private Ryan, Straight Edge, SWAT, War on Drugs

By BitcoDavid We have to stop this. The latest victim in the failed war on drugs is a veteran’s dog. AlterNet reports that on Monday, June 3rd, another military commando SWAT team, armed with – among the tear gas grenades and AK47s – a search warrant for the wrong address, shot and killed an Iraq

“Kissface” the Horse

Jun 5, 2013deafinprisonorg14 CommentsEditorials, News#JusticeForFelix, BitcoDavid, Boston, Deaf Culture, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Deafness, Marsha Graham, Police Abuse, Police officer

By BitcoDavid Years ago, I lived in Boston‘s West Fens – a corner of the ghetto area, Roxbury. In those days, Boston police had one of the few mounted police divisions. These cops loved their horses, and saw the posting as a position of honor and dignity. The cops would be assigned to different beats