No Wheelchair in Jail

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Arkansas district court <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/jailwheelchair.pdf"><strong>refused</strong></a> to dismiss a man’s disability discrimination claim brought by a man who says jail officials failed to provide him with a wheelchair, forcing him to crawl to the toilet in his cell. </span>

DREW COUNTY, Ark. – The Arkansas district court refused to dismiss a disability discrimination claim brought by a man who says jail officials failed to provide him with a wheelchair, forcing him to crawl to the toilet in his cell.

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