Glad to see this from The Marshall Project.Why #DeafInPrison Can’t Call Home.@MarshallProj covers HEARD's years-long #PhoneJustice battle. https://t.co/1FMnKveSt4— HEARD (@behearddc) September 19, 2017
Right now, most deaf detainees and prisoners have absolutely no telecommunications access,” said Talila Lewis, volunteer director of the nonprofit Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf communities (HEARD), which has been working to improve conditions for deaf people in prison since 2011. “This completely violates federal disability laws left and right, all day every day.”All day. Every day.
