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Wrongful Conviction Infographic

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Community Members Currently Incarcerated Formerly Incarcerated Legal Support Staff

ASL information explains the common causes of wrongful convictions on deaf disabled people.

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ASL: How to Respond to an Opioid Overdose (English CC)

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Community Members Formerly Incarcerated

How to respond to an opioid overdose using the various types of Naloxone. Presented in ASL with English captions.

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ASL: Harm Reduction Introduction (English CC)

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Community Members Formerly Incarcerated

Did you know that Harm Reduction is also a movement founded on respecting the rights and needs of people who use drugs? Harm Reduction accepts drug use as a part of life and offers support, safe and healthy practices.

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ASL Harm Reduction Introduction

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Community Members Formerly Incarcerated

Did you know that Harm Reduction is also a movement founded on respecting the rights and needs of people who use drugs? Harm Reduction accepts drug use as a part of life and offers support, safe and healthy practices.

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HEARD’s position on Use of Incarcerated People as “Interpreters”

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Community Members Currently Incarcerated Formerly Incarcerated Legal Support Staff

In solidarity with thousands of imprisoned people in more than 15 states who are striking to bring attention to & end horrible prison conditions and prison labor exploitation, HEARD, LRID and over twenty organizations released a statement responding to decades of neglect of the needs of Deaf/Disabled imprisoned people. Our hope is to end nearly a decade of illegal and inhumane exploitation of imprisoned people by the Louisiana Department of Corrections.

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Unspeakable: the Story of Junius Wilson

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Community Members Currently Incarcerated Formerly Incarcerated Legal Support Staff

Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and Black in the Jim Crow South.

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Deaf In Prison Documentary

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Community Education Incarcerated Advocacy
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Community Members Currently Incarcerated Formerly Incarcerated Legal Support Staff

HEARD created the #DeafInPrison Campaign to raise awareness about abuse of & discrimination against deaf prisoners.The Campaign aims to start a national conversation about these concerns and to compel corrective and preventive action.