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Attorney for watchdog group discusses the ‘inhumane’ treatment at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center

This photo made 11 June, 2002 shows the Cook County Juvenile Center that houses the youth detention center and the Nancy Jefferson Alternative Elementary School. (Photo credit should read TANNEN MAURY/AFP via Getty Images)

Rachel Shapiro, Managing Attorney for federally appointed watchdog group Equip for Equality, joins Lisa Dent to talk about the group’s report of “inhumane” and “unjust” treatment of the youth at Cook County Juvenile Detention Center. She emphasizes that most of these students haven’t been found guilty as well as Equip for Equality’s call for the detention center to be closed.