In a windowless office at the barebones Endependence Center, a tickertape sounded like Morse code as it emerged from a TTY machine, a light indicating an incoming phone call flashed on a computer ...

The pizzeria’s phone rings, but it doesn't make a sound. Instead, on the shelf below, green lights flash. Waiters scurry by. A few paces away, a cook with a big wooden paddle shoves pizzas into a ...

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Calling home from prison is cumbersome and expensive. For deaf people behind bars, it’s even tougher, sometimes impossible. The technology provided to deaf people in most US prisons is a ...