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Deaf and Damned
A deaf man named Artie Martinez languished among the criminally insane in the Arizona State Hospital for nearly 40 years. For years, he had no legal guardian, no watchdog group, no friends and a family spread far and wide. It turns out he probably never had been psychotic.
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New Times tells the story of Xavier Lance Skillman and of the 16 - year - old deaf girl who claims he sexually assaulted and kidnapped her. Public records and numerous interviewd conducted by New Times reveal that Prosecutor John Beatty was woefully unprepared to make the case against Skillman. (Jan. 12 - 18, 1995)
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The Albuquerque Journal investigates a 1977 law that was supposed to ensure coal mines would clean up after themselves and give citizens around the mines a voice. The series revealed numerous examples of pullution and objections form citizens going unheeded. (January, 1995)
Tags: Parker Mines' neighbors say complaints land of deaf ears Contest entry Hazardous waste 23 pgs.
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The New Times found that state child-protection caseworkers, police and county prosecutors ignored the tragic plight of a young deaf girl for years, despite clear evidence that she had been sexually abused. Her abusers were not prosecuted until the paper began its investigation, Oct. 13, 1994.
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The Nation exposes the problem of deaf prisoners who have never had the chance to learn sign language because of poverty; they are in a Catch-22: if they don't go to trial because of mental incompentence they must languish in a mental hospital but if they do they can't understand concepts like guilty or innocent, Oct. 4, 1993.
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Daily Press/Times Herald (Newport News, Va.) reports on the sexual abuse of children in state hospitals and the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in Hampton, Va.; an alarming rate of students are raped and molested in residential schools for the handicapped, Nov. 10, 1991. # VA Reed
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Amarillo News-Globe does series on many aspects of the nuclear waste problem; focuses on Nuclear Regulatory Commission's proposed high-level nuclear waste repository and its impact if located in Deaf Smith County, Texas, one of the recommended sites, February 1985.
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