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| Judge rules D.C. Corrections must pay damages in case of deaf inmate |
| By washingtonpost.com- Matt Zapotosky |
| Published: 09/14/2015 |
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A federal judge has ruled that the D.C. Department of Corrections will have to pay damages to a deaf former inmate because officials failed to assess what accommodations he would need when he arrived at a corrections facility and because they mismanaged his care. In a 60-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a stinging rebuke to the department for its treatment of 46-year-old William Pierce, a deaf former inmate who alleged that he was not given appropriate accommodations during his incarceration in 2012. In the opinion made public Thursday, Jackson wrote that even though the department had policies in place to assist deaf inmates, officials at the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility “effectively sat on their hands” when it came to Pierce. Read More. |
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