Think Progress Quotes HEARD in Deaf Access to Justice Article

Think Progress quotes HEARD in its article on police brutality against the deaf and terrible conditions of confinement for deaf incarcerated people‬:

“HEARD’s fact sheet indicates that many deaf prisoners are placed in solitary confinement as a substitute for the provision of finding accommodations for them. But sometimes even sign language is banned because corrections professionals “incorrectly view sign language as a formof gang signs.” The group indicates that only seven prisons across the nation have videophones, leaving deaf prisoners in thousands of other prisons without a reliable way to communicate or with TTY devices that prove inadequate or ineffective for deaf prisoners who need to convey complex information with complicated or specialized vocabulary.”