After legal advocates moved a group of deaf prisoners to California’s San Quentin prison, inmate Tommy Wickerd, serving a 57-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, found a new purpose teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to fellow incarcerated individuals and correctional officers, an initiative featured in a February 2025 report from The…
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