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Militarized Cops and Drug War Victims

Mar 23, 2013deafinprisonorg6 CommentsBook Reviews, Editorials, ReBlogs#JusticeForFelix, BitcoDavid, Cheryl Ann Stillwell, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Huffington Post, MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, Radley Balko, SWAT, War on Drugs

By BitcoDavid The Huffington Post recently featured a story by Radley Balko, author of Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. The article centers around the death of Cheryl Ann Stillwell, a middle-aged single woman, shot to death in a police raid gone awry. According to Balko, Stillwell was a recluse,

Update on Englewood Case from H.E.A.R.D.

Mar 23, 2013deafinprisonorg2 CommentsNews#JusticeForFelix, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Englewood Colorado, Facebook, H.E.A.R.D., MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, United States Department of Justice

By BitcoDavid This came from HEARD’s FaceBook page. If you haven’t yet done so, and you’re on FaceBook, you can shoot on over there, and give ’em a “Like.” HEARD – Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf – is an organization that works tirelessly to aid both the Deaf community and the

NYT Confirms, Ebel Dead after Police Shootout

Mar 23, 2013deafinprisonorg1 CommentNews#JusticeForFelix, Aryan Nation, BitcoDavid, Colorado, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Denver Post, Ebel, MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, Texas

By BitcoDavid Some of the confusion surrounding the Tom Clements shooting has been cleared up. The New York Times announced this morning, that on Friday, shooting suspect Evan S. Ebel, had died in the hospital following the police shootout, northwest of Dallas, Texas. Police however, will continue the investigation as well as investigations into several other

Follow Up: Texas Style Arrest of Clements’ Alleged Shooter

Mar 22, 2013deafinprisonorg2 CommentsNews#JusticeForFelix, BitcoDavid, Colorado, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Denver Post, MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, Prison gangs, Texas, Tom Clements

By BitcoDavid Boy, they don’t mess around in Texas. After a 100 mph chase, and an OK Coral style shootout, Texas law enforcement officers managed to shoot and wound the suspected killer of Tom Clements, the Colorado Director of Prisons. Apparently, Evan Spencer Ebel, 28, a Coloradoan with a long criminal record, and a current Denver

LA DOJ in Email Blast, Angola 3 Never Held in Solitary

Mar 21, 2013deafinprisonorgNews, Petitions#JusticeForFelix, Albert Woodfox, Angola Three, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, Louisiana State Penitentiary, MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, Solitary Confinement

By BitcoDavid DeafInPrison.com will always do its best to present both sides of any issue we cover. That of course, isn’t always possible, as commonly law enforcement tends to be quite close-mouthed about things. Not so, apparently, with the Louisiana Attorney General – James “Buddy” Caldwell. I got the following in my e-mail today, and

Event: Webinar

Mar 21, 2013deafinprisonorg15 CommentsEvents#JusticeForFelix, American Civil Liberties Union, BitcoDavid, Crime and Justice, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, Solitary Confinement, Solitary Watch

By BitcoDavid Here’s and event you may be interested in attending. Thu, Apr 18, 2013 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT there will be a Webinar on Solitary Confinement in an Age of Mass Incarceration. It is being presented by NRCAT – the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. In this hour-long webinar, we will hear

Chief of Prisons in CO, killed

Mar 21, 2013deafinprisonorg1 CommentNews#JusticeForFelix, BitcoDavid, Colorado, Colorado Department of Corrections, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Denver, John Hickenlooper, MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, Reuters

By BitcoDavid According to Reuters, Colorado’s prison system chief administrator, was shot and killed on Tuesday night. Police suspect that his position in the prison system may have been the motive. This occurred within a few hours of the Governor’s signing of a new gun control law, in response to the increased number of deadly

Directions to Bridgewater

Mar 21, 2013deafinprisonorg3 CommentsAdministrative Information, Events#JusticeForFelix, AnotherBoomerBlog, BitcoDavid, Bridgewater State Hospital, Bridgewater State University, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, Marsha Graham

By BitcoDavid Last night, as I picked up my wife from work – I may be some kind of high falutin’ cyber-journalist, but if it wasn’t for her, we wouldn’t eat. Anyway, as I was driving her home, it occurred to me that after 40 odd years of living in Mass, I haven’t a clue

Book Review of Outcasts and Angels: The New Anthologogy of Deaf Characters in Literature by Edna Edith Sayers, Galluadet University Press (2012).

Mar 20, 2013deafinprisonorgBook Reviews#JusticeForFelix, Book Review, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, JeanFAndrews, Joanne Greenberg, Lip-reading, MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, Short story, Sign language

By Jean F. Andrews CHOICE is a publication which reviews books for academic settings. This book appeared in the April 2013 issue of CHOICE. Outcasts and angels: the new anthology of deaf characters in literature, ed. by Edna Edith Sayers. Gallaudet, 2012. 361p bibl afp ISBN 9781563685392 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781563685408 e-book, $35.00 Fiction

Interview with Moorbey

Mar 19, 2013deafinprisonorg22 CommentsInterview (Print)#JusticeForFelix, BitcoDavid, Black Panther Party, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Malcolm X, MARCH! BIRTHDAY MONTH!, Moorbey, Moorbey'z Blog, Solitary Confinement

By BitcoDavid Moorbey was generous enough to grant me a quick interview about his time on the Wrong Side of the Wall. His answers to my questions are presented intact – in his own unique voice. BD: How old were you when you were arrested? Moorbey: My very 1st arrest came at tha ripe ole