When I first started this Website, I thought I could learn ASL to interview Deaf inmates. I thought learning Sign language would be easy. I was wrong. Twelve years later, I’m still learning. I had a few beginning semesters at Beverly School for the Deaf, but most of my signing experience came from Deaf friends.
Twelve years ago, we created Deafinprison.com to bring awareness to the dangers and disadvantages Deaf inmates face in America’s prisons. We championed many causes during that time, but none so much as the Felix Garcia case—an innocent Deaf man convicted of murder by the state of Florida. Domain registration and hosting issues have forced us
By BitcoDavid During the past week, DeafInPrison.com experienced a technical problem with our Domain name and our DNS Name Server. It resulted in a period when many of you could not locate us in search engines, and culminated in 2 full days where the site wasn’t visible to anybody. You have my sincerest apologies, and
By BitcoDavid I made this graphic to commemorate our 100,000 views. It’s taken us almost 4 years to do. In that time, our 7 authors and numerous supporter contributors have created 573 posts. We’ve reached 43,000 individual visitors, and our message has been seen at least once in every country on Earth. Now, we’re officially
2015 in Review
By BitcoDavid Happy New Year to all our readers, supporters, friends, Supporter Contributors and authors from BitcoDavid. 2015 was a great year for DeafInPrison.com, and I sincerely hope that 2016 will be even better. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times
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