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Book Review: Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

May 24, 2013deafinprisonorg3 CommentsBook Reviews#JusticeForFelix, Book Review, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, DOJ, Illegal drug trade, JoanneGreenberg, Justice system, Piper Kerman, Prison

By Joanne Greenberg This is a memoir of fifteen months spent in Danbury Federal Prison work camp. In the range of prisons, this was the highest (best); the others were downhill from there. Piper had been a drug dealer, left the drug game, and ten years later was arrested in connection with a sweep arrest

Probation Forms and the Deaf Offender: A Complex Matter With a Simple Solution

May 22, 2013deafinprisonorg2 CommentsEditorials#JusticeForFelix, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Deafness, JeanFAndrews, Language interpretation, Prison, Probation, Probation officer, Readability

By Jean F. Andrews Probation is a court order that allows a person convicted of a crime to remain out of jail. An individual on probation must follow certain court-ordered procedures and keep from getting into trouble with the law. Probation violations both occur when an individual either breaks the rules or fails to keep

The Half Message

May 13, 2013deafinprisonorg2 CommentsEditorials#JusticeForFelix, Body Language, Deaf Culture, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Hearing, Hearing impairment, Joanne Greenberg, Mental health, Prison

By Joanne Greenberg Many people who have been through strongly negative experiences will declare afterwards, that their sufferings gave meaning and richness to their lives. I’ve never heard these emotions expressed by people who have been in prison. Incarceration is an experience its designers made for the purpose of changing lives. Each country’s prison system

Deaf – Blind Inmates: Are They Being Served Appropriately in Jail?

May 13, 2013deafinprisonorg10 CommentsEditorials#JusticeForFelix, American Sign Language, Americans with Disabilities Act, Constitutional right, Deaf in Prison, Deafblindness, DeafInPrison.com, Human rights, JeanFAndrews, Language interpretation

By Jean F. Andrews According to a recent newsletter by HEARD, as of March 31, 2013, there are 407 deaf and deaf-blind prisoners in 38 states, Washington, D.C. and in the Federal Bureau of Prisoners. Within these numbers, we do not know exactly how many are deaf-blind or deaf and visually-impaired inmates there are in

Better

May 5, 2013deafinprisonorg5 CommentsEditorials#JusticeForFelix, American Sign Language, Baby Boom, BitcoDavid, Chris Walas, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Jack LaLanne, Language, Marsha Graham

By BitcoDavid In a scene from Chris Walas‘s the Fly II, the lead character, Martin and his girlfriend are hiding out in a motel. He’s mutating into a giant fly – twitching, peeling and losing his teeth and hair. Beth, his girlfriend, tells him they need to get to a doctor. She say’s “you’re getting

Them Hearies; Who Can Figure ‘Em?

May 2, 2013deafinprisonorg6 CommentsEditorials#JusticeForFelix, AnotherBoomerBlog, ASL, BitcoDavid, Deaf Culture, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Hard of Hearing, HoH Community, Marsha Graham

By BitcoDavid Marsha Graham raised an interesting point, this morning. In a post on her site, she asked why Hearies often leave the TV blaring in the background, while attempting an important business call. I responded as best I could with a comment. The above links will take you to her original post, and my

April at DeafInPrison.com

May 1, 2013deafinprisonorg19 CommentsEmbeded Files#JusticeForFelix, ASL Meetup, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Lipreading Mom, Live Blogging, Marsha Graham, Red Sox, Supporter Contributions

By BitcoDavid [scribd id=138924950 key=key-2f9bnjhd5j5e2x77gezx mode=scroll] BitcoDavid is a blogger and a blog site consultant. In former lives, he was an audio engineer, a videographer, a teacher – even a cab driver. He is an avid health and fitness enthusiast and a Pro/Am boxer. He has spent years working with diet and exercise to combat

Embed: DOJ’s 71ppg PDF on Serial Murder

Apr 28, 2013deafinprisonorg3 CommentsEmbeded Files#JusticeForFelix, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, DSM, Murder, Serial killer, Spree killer, Thrill Killers, United States Department of Justice

By BitcoDavid Several years ago, I did a paper on the differences between the 3 major types of mass murderers. Serial Killers, Spree Killers and Thrill Killers. The terms are not interchangeable – the three types have succinctly different motivations, methodologies and pathologies. Research for that piece came from the DSM-IV, and from the

So Long CISPA!!!

Apr 27, 2013deafinprisonorg4 CommentsEditorials#JusticeForFelix, Barack Obama, BitcoDavid, CISPA, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Martial Law, Senate, Ziff Davis

By BitcoDavid Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out! Ziff Davis among others, is reporting that the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA is dead in the Senate. Apparently, the bill contained insufficient privacy protections. This site, joined 900 others in a protest of the bill this

An Unpopular Point of View

Apr 23, 2013deafinprisonorg4 CommentsEditorials

By BitcoDavid Yesterday, DeafInPrison.com was one of over 900 sites that went dark in protest of the proposed Internet snooping law known as CISPA. This law would allow government agencies to track your browsing habits, download and read your e-mails, and peek at your social network profiles. Furthermore, it would not only mandate that your