Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Christopher Fuentes' hands fly in front of him, recalling his recent stay inside the Harris County Jail after a violent Super Bowl Sunday fight with his brother landed him there.

Once inside, his initial appearance before a judge was translated for him through a sign language interpreter.

While Fuentes had a million questions racing through his brain at the time, he sat silently as he was signed to.

"I was too scared and sat there," Fuentes says now. "He (the judge) said everything I said would be used against me."

Once the jail hearing was over, deputies motioned for him to sit in front of a television, where a videotaped reading of the inmate handbook was translated into sign language.