Korea of merciless attacks via fax. South korea faxed back vowing altercation he. Law violates the constitutional due process. Utah is already issuing licenses to same sex couples. Remember, you can always get the latest news at aljazeera. Com. On america tonight an al jazeera exclusive. Part 2 into our exclusive. Life behind bars,. One week after incarceration, they found him hanging from a sheet. Most horrible call ive ever received in my life. Faith and forgiveness. She lost her faith but not her love. Ron burgundy, how sometimes lines are blurred. Id say lighten up. Theres a whole revolution happening in Television News thats reflected in this exhibit. An good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. There can be no more intimidating isolating environment than the walls of our prison system. Especially for those whose disabilities make any communication challenging. Even the Untold Stories of the imprisoned, years have developed contacts behind bars and in the Hearing Impaired Community to bring this important story out. Tonight we begin with the second part of this exclusive indepth look at the challenges of the deaf and disabled in prison with the look at the fair treatment guaranteed to inmates with physical and mental impairments, and examine why the prison system so rarely delivers on those guarantees. When individuals come in who have disabilities, these systems arent prepared to handle them. They dont have the type of clinically support they need. Environments. If you are disabled, these institutions arent set up to deem with you and no accommodations are generally ever going to be made for you. My name is william, im 39 years old, im incarcerated in this facility for a year. For possession of a firearm. And impaired person we always get problems more than a normal person because we dont communicate as well as they do. Dealing with correctional officers, because they dont really know hearing impaired, they call you from behind, you dont hear them they come rush you, and i get attacked and i turn around and i attack back, you know. I got a hearing aid now but i need my charger for it. They dont accept this charge he in the facility because people can say you can make a bomb or whatever out of it. But im not beat for it so i leave that alone and i wait until i do my time. My name is robin a ahearn ive been here in the philadelphia prison system for four years, working at the riverside correctional facility. Staff inmates dont have equal access to services that they need and they need someone to be an advocate for them. People who can hear get ten minutes on the phone every day. On the other hand, if that inmate has to actually schedule an appointment with the city social worker to get the tty and talk on the phone. If they dont have communication with their family and loved ones they wont feel support, they wont feel love. Theyll feel more isolated in the prison systems. Right now, she lacks a sign Language Interpreter to complete a program that she needs to get relief, therefore shes in jail longer than she really needs to be. It would actually save the state money to get her out of jail sooner, having a sign Language Interpreter provided for her would be a good investment. It just makes it even more difficult to overcome if you have a disability. If you dont have sign language access, in terms of therapy, group therapy, youre not going to get the support you need to stay clean. I am the mother of Jeremy Jeremy never got treated right from the beginning, from the time of arrest. When he was hold at the Lawrence County jail he never got an assigned call, or a sign Language Interpreter. He got called down 16 times when he was at the county jail. One week from incarceration exactly six days they found him hanging by the sheet. It was the most horrible experience i ever most horrid phone call i ever received in my life. He was 42 days without a phone call. A regular hearing person was allowed to use the phone within three days. My son was denied use of a phone for 42 days. I want my son treated just like anybody else. I want him to have the same opportunity as a hearing person does. I want him to be treated equal in the eyes of the law. Talilah lewis joins us now shes the founder of heard, do you know how many in the prison country are hearing impaired . By and large prison systems are not tracking how many deaf in any particular facility. Besides heards database it is very, very difficult to tell. Some states have some numbers but most states have nothing. What is the need . Shouldnt the ada cover the need within a facility, a state or federal facility . The ada covers compliance of state run facilities. The rehabilitate act is actually the law that applies to the federal bureau of prisons. In either case, yes, language Access Services must be provided. Its unquestionable under both those laws. As a practical matter its just not . Its not happening. Everything in our prison system is so secretive, so hidden that people arent aware unless you have a Family Member whos deaf in prison, unless youre an advocate or attorney, and the prison application act which was passed by our congress in 1995 that makes it really, really difficult to sue as a prisoner. You know there arent going to be people who suggest that look, some of these folks have been convicted of quite serious crimes. Should there be an allowance made, should there be an Additional Support for people who are disabled beyond what is required by the law in areas we have talked about already . Absolutely. Its not additional people would say additional favors or things like that. Its not that. What were asking for is equality. So the fact that a deaf person can go into a prison, a deaf or any other disabled person and not receive access to services, Mental Health care services, medical health care services, while security is a factor in the whole prison complex if you will, it is something that can be handled and has been handled time and time again with facilities that do allow interpreters. The powhattan is system in new jersey for example, however its appropriate for their facility theyve plowed interpreters. But prisons arent looking to get interpreters in the first place. The reason theyre in prison isnt necessarily because they are a bad person but the whole system failed, they didnt have interpreters during interrogation or during court so on so forth. We find disabled people are misrepresented in prison not because the system is bad but because the system fails them from a to z. Thanks very much for bringing this unreported story to life. Talilah lewis, thank you. Thank you for having me. After a Class Action Lawsuit new york prison system is one of the very few making an effort to accommodate the deaf and hardofhearing. Only one out of five states that houses deaf and hardofhearing inmates together. My name ask Ryan Nathaniel doring and what i do here is i work as a teachers aide and i like helping inmates learn. Because we have the deaf program here, a lot of the inmates they try to be more sensitive, you know, if theres something going on, something important, sometimes theyll let us know, that way we wont feel left out. There are about half a dozen facilities across the state that can house our population. And our job here is to make sure that theyve been identified correctly and that they dont slip through the contraction and go to any other facility other than those designated for persons with disability. I think its really important to identify immediately, so that we dont set ourselves up for any kind of discrimination lawsuits. Because it happened once and thats what created the program. There needs to be oversight to find out whether or not these institutions are actually following our laws, like the americans with disabilities act. Unfortunately theres very little public scrutiny and oversight of these institutions in general and certainly an effort to do this on a local and National Level will make a huge difference for disabled people who are now in jail. The understanding is, if you take that sign language class, its not just outer of interest for some of these maximum security guys who have been working lets say many years as an interpreter there, we try oget them to a medium facility that is designated for the deaf and mofg so they can continue hardofhearing so they can continue to use that skill. We need new and Different Solutions if we really want to make a difference. We need to ensure that these institutions treat people with doesntcy and dignity and provide decency and dignity and they can live a safe and secure life. Coming up on america tonight, they took her husbands life on the streets of benghazi, but not evey sunday night, join us for exclusive, revealing, and suprizing talks with the most interesting people of our time. This sunday, i spent my whole life thinking about themes and thinking about how to structure movies, so this is highly unusual. The director of the sixth sense, says there are five things we can do to fix education in america the United States has education apartheid, thats the facts. Talk to al jazeera with m. Night shayamalan sunday at 7et 4pt on Al Jazeera America and finally from us tonight, we like to think of ourselves as a classy news operation, after all america tonight originates from the museum, classy enough to have a sense of humor, especially when it takes place in our own backyard. America tonight sarah hoy went in. The legend of ron burgundy. I love scotch, i love scotch, scotchy scotch scotch. That 2004 comedy quickly became a cult classic. Now almost a decade later, the highly anticipated followup anchorman 2, the legend continues, is in theaters. Were starting a 24 hour news channel. We want you. Do the thing that god put ron burgundy on the earth to do. Have salon quality hair and read the news. Promoting the film when had farrell appearing on a number of tv shows as the over the top ron burgundy, promoting a fake book. Theres tips in here i wouldnt expect to come from a newsman, one is how to survive a prison riot. Or interviewing nfl quarterback Peyton Manning for espn. Peyton, can you hear me . I sure can, ron. And its an honor to be talking to you. Peyton, can you hear me . And even real news news casts. Im amber shots. And im ron burgundy, thanks for joining us. But his biggest coup. The newseum in washington, d. C, the temple for news. When i heard the newseum was planning an exhibit for me, i thought what the hell is the newseum. The choshman exhibit complete with a recreation with the kvwn sexism. This is an opportunity we didnt tell before about life in the 1970s when women first started coming into Television Newsrooms. It was a clash of cultures between the men who dominated and the women who wanted a slice of the pie also. A spoof accommodate, like the fall of the berlin wall. I guess id say lighten up, you know, this is an exhibit where we tell a very real story. Theres a whole revolution thats happening in Television News thats reflected in this exhibit. While the first anchorman movie took a swing at the tv news business, the dawn of cable news a decade later. From news bus, for anchorman fans, theres rons signature burgd burgburgundy honor. This is an incredible honor. Finally, i got angry, what took the museum so damn long to give me a call. Like come on, knuckle heads. Back to you, joie, you stay classy. Been there, done all that. Thats eigh america tonights sarah hoy reporting. For america tonight, good night. You want to come first . Not really. Just go ahead and shop with these two guys here. Lea. Yeah, im all right. You see what . No