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The Prisoners of Silence
Davis, Lennard J. | October 4, 1993 issue

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The article focuses on José Flores, who has been in jail in Passaic County, New Jersey, since June 1992 awaiting trial on charges of kidnapping, burglary and sexual assault of minors. The 29-year-old Flores, profoundly deaf, has not received a speedy trial because he cannot read, write or use sign language. Raised in a remote rural area of Puerto Rico, Flores had neither access to appropriate education nor a Deaf community, both of which are needed to foster language in deaf children. People such as Flores, deprived of language until after puberty, are like feral children; they have a very difficult time acquiring language as adults.

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FLORES, Jose; PRISONERS; CRIMINALS; TRIALS; OFFENSES against the person; HEARING impaired
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