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By Editor | El Nuevo Georgia News | July 5, 2018
By Taylor Cooper | The Brunswick News | June 27, 2018
By Wes Wolfe | The Brunswick News | June 22, 2018
A deaf Brunswick man sentenced to serve extensive time in state prison is part of a proposed class action suit against the state Department of Corrections, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Macon.
By Ashley Bridges | WJBF News Channel 6 Augusta | June 22, 2018
ATLANTA (WJBF) - When Jerry Coen was cuffed, he lost not only his freedom but the most basic ability to communicate for 10 years.
"I went to jail and I was still handcuffed behind my back," Jerry tells me through his interpreter
By Rhonda Cook | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | June 20, 2018
Prison was a silent, isolating place for Jerry Coen despite being locked up in a facility that housed 1,150 other inmates.
By Mark Niesse | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | June 11, 2018
“This decision does embolden those politicians who are always looking for an excuse to kick people off the rolls,” said Sean Young, the legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. “It unreasonably assumes that
