BEING MICHELLE is a powerful feature-length documentary film about a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse and now uses her artwork to depict the trauma she survived and heal from her past.
“More than an estimated 750,000 incarcerated individuals have a disability. 32% of those in federal prisons and 40% of individuals incarcerated in jails have at least one disability.
Additionally, an estimated 153,000 deaf individuals are incarcerated in jails or state and federal prisons.”