Deaf Homeless Man Jailed In Virginia For Six Weeks Says He Was Denied Interpreter

The Guardian
Mar. 20, 2015

He knew he was in jail, but he didn’t know why.

Eventually, Abreham Zemedagegehu learned that he had been accused of stealing an iPad – an iPad whose owner later found it. He spent the next six weeks in jail, unable to communicate with his jailers because he is deaf. He described a frightening, isolated experience in which medical procedures were performed without his consent and he feared for his safety.

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