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| Texas inmates struggle to be heard when family visits |
| By theeagle.com |
| Published: 01/12/2015 |
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HOUSTON (AP) — Ruth Lawhern leaned close to the divider in the jail visitation stall, raising her voice as her husband pressed his ear to the other side of the thick glass. "What did they tell you about getting an MRI or an X-ray of that cut on your head?" Lawhern shouted. Her husband, Chris Trevino, 43, gestured that he couldn't hear. Lawhern tried again, shouting even louder, her voice adding to a cacophony of sound from nearly 20 visitors in the small visitation room on the second floor of the Harris County jail. The group — mostly women, several with small children in tow — had to yell messages, some intimate and personal, at loved ones through small metal screens in the glass. Speakers in the screen barely carry sound, visitors to the Baker Street jail complain, but it is the only way families and friends can communicate since telephone handsets were removed before Sheriff Adrian Garcia took over in 2009. Read More. |
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