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Rachael Seevers: Marking Hard Time Harder is a report that's being put out by the Amplifying Voices of Inmates with Disabilities Prison Project, the AVID Project, which is an initiative from Disability Rights Washington. This project focuses on programmatic accessibility in state prisons, so how inmates can have access to programming under the Americans With Disabilities Act. This report focuses on three areas of prison life, the sort of health, hygiene, and safety of inmates, accommodations in programming, and accommodations in communications.

 

Here in this report you'll find interviews with inmates and their families. You'll find case summaries of the types of advocacy that agencies have done from across the country. We have twenty different participating protection and advocacy agencies who have submitted work.

 

The intent of the report was really to raise awareness of the issue of people with disabilities in prison. It concludes with a series of recommendations that identify steps that both the federal government and the state governments can take in response to this really crisis in our prison system.

 

Narrator: The AVID Prison Project, Amplifying Voices of Inmates with Disabilities is a collaboration between The Arizona Center for Disability Law, Disability Law Colorado, The Advocacy Center of Louisiana, Disability Rights New York, Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities of South Carolina, Disability Rights Texas, Disability Rights Washington and The National Disability Rights Network. This video was produced by Rooted in Rights.

 

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The AVID Prison Project is a collaboration between The Arizona Center for Disability Law, Disability Law Colorado, The Advocacy Center of Louisiana, Disability Rights New York, Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities of South Carolina, Disability Rights Texas, Disability Rights Washington and The National Disability Rights Network.