Toshio Meronek is an independent journalist who has covered disability, prisons, and LGBT/queer issues for The Advocate, Huffington Post, In These Times, Truthout, and many others. He is also former editor of The Abolitionist, the newspaper of the anti-prison industrial complex organization Critical Resistance.
For inmates with disabilities who are routinely denied their mental or physical needs, incarceration can be a nightmarish fight for survival.