The law firm Fox & Robertson has published information on the Ulibarri v. City and County of Denver. This class action lawsuit challenges accommodations for deaf and diabetic inmates in the custody of the Denver Police Department and the Denver County Jail. http://www.foxrob.com/current-cases/ulibarri-v-city-and-county-of-denver/ On the website are documents which may be of interest to other
The majority of deaf adults cannot read the jail/prison medical/intake form without the aid of a certified sign language interpreter. However, rarely do jails and prison provide deaf inmates with interpreters. This can and does result in human tragedy. The medical/psychological intake form is a one-page form that is given to the inmate during the
The principal at Horace Mann school thinks that it would be crueler to deny his students the pleasure of a Taylor Swift visit. According to the Boston Herald: Ford said that if Swift’s peeps put the kibosh on the concert, it would be “extremely short-sighted.” “We would have the concert beautifully translated into American Sign
Apparently, a group of hackers hijacked a contest that would end up sending country music star Taylor Swift to a Massachusetts school for the Deaf. This story comes from the New York Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/taylor-swift-sing-massachusetts-school-deaf-thanks-online-ballot-stuffing-internet-pranksters-article-1.1148163 It’s unclear if the prankster protesters were rigging the vote with charitable aims in mind for the school – or
Once again, Marsha Graham serves as the inspiration for this post. One of her replies to a previous article reminded me of something that happened to me before I became a Citizen. *** In 1982, several members of the Boston Police, gang raped and murdered a 16-year-old honor student at a private bar called The
August was our most active month since our launch. We posted 29 posts in 31 days, got tons of comments and even more “Likes.” Thank you all for reading, supporting, contributing and generally supporting DeafInPrison.com Here’s the link to this month’s PDF wrap-up. August at DeafInPrison
I’ve been meaning to reblog this for some time. It’s humorous and educational at the same time – and that’s a rare combination. D. If I come to your restaurant and mention I am HoH do you: Quickly get me a braille menu? Get me a wheelchair? Get me a pen and paper? Get me
You might find this article a bit partisan, but there is some very interesting information buried in it. It’s a reblog from AlterNet. Please let me know what you think. http://www.alternet.org/education/crazy-country-6-reasons-america-spends-more-prisons-higher-education?akid=9298.79351.y_IKZG&rd=1&src=newsletter701550&t=3 Why do people steal in order to buy drugs? For starters, most are poor and will stay that way because as a society we
This story is reblogged from Prisonmovement’s Weblog. It is more on the story of Lashonn White, a story we covered on August 8th. “I mean imagine—all I did was come running, wave my hands and come running out, and the next thing I know I’m on the ground,” White explained to Halsne through
The first, from June of 2010 concerns itself with the elderly in prison. The second addresses the mentally ill in America’s prisons. It was originally posted in December of 2009. BitcoDavid has asked me to convey his apologies, but due to the fact that these videos are the intellectual property of Al Jazeera TV, and
