1985 Press Photo John Staszak Signs to Interpreter in Interview about jailing

(John Staszak) used sign language during an interview. For 14 days last winter, Milwaukee County locked up a profoundly deaf man in a mental ward and did not tell him why. "I was scared," said John Staszak, who talked to a reporter through a sign-language interpreter. Staszak also cannot speak. It was the second time in five months that the young man had been locked in a mental ward at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex without being provided a certified interpreter. (Wisconsin).

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches. Photo is dated 05-12-1985.

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