[blindlaw] possible discrimination...What should i do?

[Elizabeth Cooks]

To all receiving this email:

My husband, who is totally blind, is currently incarcerated in a prison in
Southern Illinois.  I justrecentlygot him set up with talkingbooks and a
machine, which was promptly sent to him after receipt of the application.
After the books and machine arrived, there was a run around going on about
who had responsibility for the material and machine.  Now, I just got a call
from my husband this evening telling me that he is not allowed to have the
tapes or machine, since they have screws and he could take them apart and
hide things in them.  For the same reason, they will not allow him to have a
braille writer so that he can write to me when others are allowed
typewriters an access to reading material from the library.  It seems to me
he isn't given the same rights as everyone there. Is there anything i can do
about this?

Thank you for your time.

Elizabeth Cooks