Name: 刑務所で耳が聞こえないってどんな感じ？| BBCのアイデア (What is it like to be deaf in prison? | BBC Ideas)
Uploaded: 2025-06-15T14:36:02.000Z
Duration: 5 min 34 s
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Everything feels that little bit more frightening.

すべてが少し恐ろしく感じられる。

過去形

(Sign language) There was total communication breakdown. They didn't understand me.

比較級形容詞

Everyone has their own opinions on how hard prison should be, but with a disability, it shouldn't be any harder.

刑務所の厳しさについては人それぞれだが、障害がある以上、これ以上辛いことはないはずだ。

I worked as a prison officer, so I was in jail on a daily basis.

私は刑務官として働いていたので、毎日のように刑務所にいた。

I then committed an offence, and I spent three years and three months in prison.

その後、私は犯罪を犯し、3年3カ月を刑務所で過ごした。

私は両耳に補聴器をつけている。

私はバッテリーの予備を持って行った。

When I arrived at the reception area, I was told that I wouldn't be allowed to have those batteries with me, but then without them switched on, I felt really vulnerable, because I couldn't then hear what was going on around me.

レセプションに着いたとき、電池は持ってはいけないと言われたんだけど、電池のスイッチを入れていないと、周りの状況が聞こえないから、本当に無防備な感じがしたんだ。

(Sign language) I'm profoundly deaf. My first language is British Sign Language (BSL). My sentence was seven and a half years.

When I arrived from court to prison, there was no interpreter at all. So I was really frightened. I didn't know what was going on.

My English wasn't very good. I had to communicate through notes written in English, however I could.

Prisons are environments that really run on sound, so not only do you have lots of voices going on at the same time, but you have alarms, bells, tannoys, all making noise in the prison environment.

刑務所は本当に音で動く環境なので、同時にたくさんの声が聞こえるだけでなく、アラーム、ベル、タンノイなど、すべてが刑務所という環境で音を出している。

And so if you can't access that, it means that you can't hear if there's a fire alarm going off.

それにアクセスできないということは、火災報知器が鳴っても聞こえないということだ。

If you can't hear what's happening outside of your cell door, or what might be coming, you feel even less in control of your own surroundings.

独房のドアの外で何が起きているのか、何がやってくるのかが聞こえないなら、自分の周囲をコントロールできないように感じるだろう。

If another prisoner calls to you as you're walking away and you don't respond, they may perceive that as you being rude, and that could then result in an argument or even physical violence.

歩いている途中で他の囚人に声をかけられ、それに応えなければ、無礼だと受け取られ、口論や肉体的暴力に発展する可能性さえある。ドアが見えるように、壁に背を向けて構えようと意識したこともあった。 

I was really aware at times of trying to position myself with my back to the wall so that I could see the door, because then you can see what's coming.

(Sign language) I wasn't able to communicate. I was really stressed. And I didn't feel safe.

My mental health was really bad. I didn't feel well at all. I couldn't sleep, and my mental health problems got worse. I became very depressed. I felt completely isolated and kept myself to myself for a long time.

I got attacked in my cell. I'd have to press the alarm all the time. So they'd have to move me to another cell. And that trauma changed my life.

The way that prisoners are meant to be supported is about making what's called reasonable adjustments to make sure that everyone's treated equally.

受刑者をサポートする方法とは、誰もが平等に扱われるようにするための合理的調整と呼ばれるものです。

But in reality, what's considered reasonable is open to quite a lot of interpretation.

しかし実際には、何が妥当とみなされるかは、かなり多くの解釈の余地がある。

The adjustments that are made should ensure that deaf prisoners are able to access all parts of the prison regime.

耳の聞こえない囚人が、刑務所の体制のあらゆる部分にアクセスできるよう、調整がなされるべきである。

But in practice, that's not really the case.

しかし、実際にはそうではない。

They tend to serve longer sentences because it's much harder for them to prove that they've reduced their risk through completion of rehabilitation programmes,

聴覚障害者がリハビリプログラムを修了したり、教育や就労、訓練に参加することでリスクを軽減したことを証明するのが難しいため、刑期が長くなる傾向がある。

engagement in education or work or training, because those things aren't so accessible to deaf people.

(Sign language) The first four prisons I was in were the worst time in my life.

The last prison was much better. They taught me how to write and fill in the forms. And then when I got into class, we had a computer and I had an interpreter as well.

If I'd arrived in the first prison and they'd provided an interpreter and given me access to learning English, it would have been better, and my sentence wouldn't have been as drawn out.

Maybe it's just my experience of the three prisons that I was in as a prisoner, but also from my experience as an officer, I feel that making adaptations and making accessibility to all the same things as other prisoners feels like a bit of an effort.

お母さん 私が囚人として入っていた3つの刑務所での経験だけかもしれませんが、職員としての経験からも、他の囚人と同じように適応させたり、アクセスしやすくしたりするのは、少し大変なことのように感じます。

Prison has an impact on you, psychologically, as it is.

刑務所は、そのまま心理的に影響を与える。

To go through it feeling unnecessarily more vulnerable or more isolated seems harsh, regardless of someone's offence.

不必要に傷つきやすくなったり、孤立感を強めたりするのは、誰かの犯罪に関係なく、厳しいことのように思える。

We might be tempted to say, well, this person's committed a crime and that's why they're in prison, so why should I care?

この人は犯罪を犯したから刑務所にいるんだ。

But at some point, this person will be released back into the community and really we have a choice.

しかし、ある時点でこの人物は社会に戻される。

We can either say, no, they should be given no extra support whatsoever and their time in prison is their time in prison.

私たちは、彼らには特別な支援は一切与えず、刑務所にいる時間は彼らの時間だと言うこともできるし、彼らの更生、良好な人間関係の構築、身体的・精神的健康の維持のために支援しようとすることもできる。

Or we can try and support them in their rehabilitation, in building good relationships, in having good physical and mental health.

And we know that all of those things reduce the risk of re-offending upon release.

そして、こうしたことがすべて、出所後の再犯リスクを減らすことがわかっている。

Of course prison's hard and prison should be quite hard, obviously, for it to have an effect.

もちろん刑務所は厳しいし、効果があるためには刑務所はかなり厳しくなければならない。

But everyone should get the same sort of shot at it, surely, and that doesn't happen.

しかし、誰もが同じようなチャンスを得るべきなのに、そうはならない。

It does not happen when it comes to deafness.

聴覚障害となるとそうはいかない。