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Update: Taylor Swift to Donate Concert Tix to Deaf School

Oct 3, 2012deafinprisonorgNews#JusticeForFelix, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, Deaf Students, DeafInPrison.com, Horace Mann School, Internet Hoax, Music and the Deaf, Music education, Taylor Swift

In a story we’ve been following, TODAYonline reports that Taylor Swift, after an Internet hoax promised a concert at Horace Mann School for the Deaf, has offered to give the school over 12,000 dollars worth of tickets. Here’s the page link: http://www.todayonline.com/CultureAndLifestyle/Music/EDC121003-0000115/Taylor-Swift-gives-concert-tickets-to-Boston-deaf-school-after-prank#.UGxfZsNeTMs.twitter The cruel joke was intended to mock both Swift and the Deaf population

So, What Do You Need to Know About ASL Name Signs? Workshop by Professor Andrew Byrne

Oct 2, 2012deafinprisonorgEditorials#JusticeForFelix, ASL name signs Deaf Awareness week, Deaf Culture, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Hearing impairment, JeanFAndrews, Lamar University, Sam Supalla, University of Arizona

This workshop presented by Professor Andrew Byrne during Deaf Awareness week at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, featured a fascinating description about the linguistic structure, origin and history of the process of “naming” in the Deaf community. Professor Byrne stated that there are many errors made by hearing people who assign name signs to deaf children

September at DeafInPrison.com

Oct 1, 2012deafinprisonorgAdministrative Information#JusticeForFelix, Americans with Disabilities Act, ASL, BitcoDavid, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Exoneration, Felix Garcia, James Ridgeway, JeanFAndrews

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Proof of False Confession and DNA Testing Lead to Freeing of Innocent Death-Row Inmate in LA

Oct 1, 2012deafinprisonorgNews#JusticeForFelix, Arrest, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, death-row, DNA, Exoneration, false confession, police coercive tactics, U.S. Prisons

“I was hungry. All I wanted to do was sleep, and I was willing to tell them anything they wanted me to tell them if it would get me out of that interrogation room.” This is was Damon Thibodeaux statement about his nine-hour interrogation on July 21, 1996 that resulted in his false confession to