Inmates with Disabilities Are Struggling in Washington Prisons

by Ana Sofia Knauf
Of nearly 1,600,000 people imprisoned in the United States, about 31 percent of inmates have at least one disability, the Amplifying Voices of Inmates with Disabilities (AVID) Prison Project reports.Officials with the project are working to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act in prisons, many of which have disability coordinators, KUOW reports.
According to AVID, in recent years, there has been a rise in "the number of people with mental illness and developmental and c