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Texas Court Orders TDCJ to Provide Hearing Impaired Telecommunications
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2012, page 43
On April 5, 2011, a Texas state court issued a temporary injunction ordering the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to provide telecommunications to hearing impaired prisoners using the Texas Relay Service (TRS).Leslie Arrington, Janet Lock, Kathy Williams and Laura Beeman are Texas state prisoners who, with the assistance ...
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