DeafInPrison.com Archives - Page 52 of 53

Four Links

Jun 11, 2012deafinprisonorgReBlogsAlterNet, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, JeanFAndrews, JoanneGreenberg, McCay Vernon, New York Times, Pat Bliss, Truthout

Perhaps slightly off topic, but I wanted to share these stories with you. –BitcoDavid 50th Anniversary of the escape from Alcatraz. The New York Times posted two excellent pieces on this milestone in Criminal Justice History. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/us/anniversary-of-a-mystery-at-alcatraz.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23_20120610 And the accompanying slide show. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/06/09/us/20120610_alcatraz.html More on solitary confinement from Truthout. http://truth-out.org/news/item/9673-everything-legal-is-not-moral-why-were-taking-solitary-confinement-to-court AlterNet discusses the trend towards

An Important E-mail from H.E.A.R.D.

Jun 11, 2012deafinprisonorgNewsAmericans with Disabilities Act, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, H.E.A.R.D., James Ridgeway, JeanFAndrews, JoanneGreenberg, Pat Bliss, Solitary Confinement

[The following was taken from an e-mail I got from H.E.A.R.D.] Reassessing Solitary Confinement: The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences Hearing Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226 Description: U.S.

Inmate Letter Dated March 15th, 2012

Jun 8, 2012deafinprisonorgInmate LettersAmericans with Disabilities Act, ASL, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, DeafInPrison.com Blog, Hearing Impaired, Pat Bliss, Prison rape, Prison Violence

Sadly, the original letter was barely legible. After a struggle, I managed to translate it – roughly – for you here. I tried to maintain the inmate’s voice, while working to make sense of it. –Pat. Hello to the peoples. Thanks for your support of the deaf people who have suffered in prison for

Jun 7, 2012deafinprisonorgReBlogsAmericans with Disabilities Act, ASL, BitcoDavid, CrimeDime.com, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, JeanFAndrews, JoanneGreenberg, McCay Vernon, Pat Bliss

Here’s the 2nd installment of my interview with CrimeDime They’ve done a fabulous job in writing up and formatting this entire series, and have earned the gratitude of myself and DeafInPrison.com

Jun 5, 2012deafinprisonorgReBlogsAmericans with Disabilities Act, ASL, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, JeanFAndrews, JoanneGreenberg, McCay Vernon, Pat Bliss, Sign

This was posted on http://crimedime.com. It represents the first in a series, and http://deafinprison.com is deeply grateful and indebted.

The Injustice of Lonliness as Punishment

Jun 2, 2012deafinprisonorgEditorialsAmericans with Disabilities Act, ASL, Deaf, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Deafness, Injustice, Jail, JoanneGreenberg, Justice system

[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

May 31, 2012deafinprisonorgUncategorizedAmericans with Disabilities Act, Black Inmates, Deaf, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Deafness, Felix Garcia, JeanFAndrews, JoanneGreenberg, Pat Bliss

Click on the link to view a PDF update on our activities for May. May at DeafInPrison.com

County Jails vs. Prison from a Paralegal Perspective

May 29, 2012deafinprisonorgInterview (Print)Americans with Disabilities Act, Black Inmates, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Exoneration, Injustice, Jail, Pat Bliss, Police, Prison

I was asked by BitcoDavid to give my impressions of jail and prison as a paralegal. From 1993 to the end of 2006, I have spent a lot of my time either going into a prison or a jail. I hear many confuse the word jail when they mean prison so let me clarify the

Interview with Mr. Jesse Doiron English Professor and Leader of Inmates Book Club

May 29, 2012deafinprisonorgInterview (Print)Americans with Disabilities Act, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Education in Prison, Innocence, Jail, Justice system, Prison Book Clubs, Prison Reform, Reading in Prison

I interviewed my colleague, Mr. Jesse Doiron who is an English professor at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX. For the past five years, he has led an interesting inmates’ book club. I asked him how he got the club started and how the inmates liked it. Implications for starting such book clubs for deaf inmates

Awaiting Trial

May 24, 2012deafinprisonorgFelix Garcia CaseAmericans with Disabilities Act, Arrest, Cholesteatoma, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Felix Garcia, Free Felix Garcia FaceBook Page, Inmate Letters, Otitis Media, Pat Bliss

Lying on an inch thick mattress, puss running out of his ears, migraine headaches, vomiting chronically and constantly passing out, would accurately describe Felix Garcia’s day-to-day existence at the old Morgan Street Jail in downtown Tampa, Florida. The woefully ill-equipped medical staff struggled to help a new inmate – coming to see them regularly –