Mie Lewis Speaks about abuse in detention facilities

Underreported: Abuse in Juvenile Prisons

A new report from Human Rights Watch and the ACLU documents abuse and neglect in two high-security New York juvenile prisons. Mie Lewis, the report’s author, tells us that girls at Lansing and Tryon have been violently restrained and sexually abused by staff members. Mie Lewis is the Aryeh Neier Fellow at Human Rights Watch and the ACLU.