Wisconsin prisons agree to help hearing-impaired inmates under settlement ...Middle East

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has agreed to provide more help to hearing-impaired inmates as part of a settlement with federal investigators. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that its investigators had been probing complaints from inmates at the Racine Correctional Institution, the Taycheedah Correctional Facility and the Felmers O. Chaney Correctional Center in Milwaukee that Corrections officials weren’t repairing inmates’ hearing aids and weren’t providing access to services such as sign language interpreters, text telephones and phones compatible with hearing aids. “People with disabilities in Wisconsin deserve equal access, and that does no

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