More Noise, More Hearing Loss – NYTimes.com
More Noise, More Hearing Loss – NYTimes.com. An interesting article on hearing loss and noise pollution.
The Injustice of Lonliness as Punishment
[The tagline for DeafInPrison.com is Sentenced to Solitude in Silence. Our contributor JoanneGreenberg sent this in. –Ed.] The hardest part of being deaf and in prison may not be the rapes, the missing of messages or the misunderstanding in general. It might be the absence of other deaf people. Imagine a Russian or Basque speaker
May at DeafInPrison.com
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Sexual Victimization Reported by Former State Prisoners, 2008
svrfsp08.pdf (application/pdf Object).
The Addition of “Bliss -2”
Since this site was launched, I’ve been writing – on my page – about the tragic story of Felix Garcia. This innocent Deaf man has been behind bars for some 30 years now, for a crime he didn’t commit. Due to the fact that I’m writing this story in chapters, and it’s becoming quite long,
Behavioral Control
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Deaf Prisoners – When Deaf People Are in Prison
The other day, I posted the DOJ report on prison populations as of Mid-year 2011. I did so, in an effort to respond to a question I was asked by a reader. Quite simply, how many Deaf inmates are there, in American prisons. In numerous searches, including having read the above report, I have not yet been
Go Directly to Jail
Being an ex-con is hard enough. Many of the educational opportunities available to people in prison are not available to the deaf inmate. We hear of men graduating high school and even of completing college by taking advantage of the volunteer-run programs that tutor and teach.I know three people who conduct such programs as
Jail Inmates at Midyear 2011 – Statistical Tables
jim11st.pdf (application/pdf Object).
Prisoners Helping Prisoners
by McCay Vernon, McDaniel College & Katrina R. Miller, Emporia State University Doing Time At the end of his trial, Mark Brackmann heard the verdict: nine years in prison. Shortly thereafter, he was in a jail cell awaiting transfer to the penitentiary. He had never been in a prison before and knew little about what