Lowell Correctional Institute

"Being Michelle" is about a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse. In this interview, members of the documentary's production team discuss her story and the larger issues it raises.

The report said officials were aware of abuses at the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala since 2006.

A guard accused in a lawsuit of beating a female inmate so severely she was left paralyzed had previously been accused of trading cigarettes for sex,…