Inside Sierra Leone's Sexist Prison System
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- Women Behind Bars: How Sierra Leone's prison system is unfairly persecuting women
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Inside Sierra Leone's notoriously corrupt justice system there's been an explosion in female prison rates. But there are some who are fighting for these women, trapped in poverty and discrimination, and behind bars.
Twelve years after Sierra Leone’s long civil war came to an end, its broken institutions and weak development indicators continue to impact on the lives of its people. And as ever it’s women who bear the brunt. Aside from the usual grim data, one statistic stands out: the number of female prisoners has doubled over the past three years. Paralegals Victoria and Marvel are fighting for the rights of women trapped by a corrupt system that discriminates against them. In a country of only 400 lawyers, Sierra Leone’s 80 paralegals have a crucial role to play in trying to deliver basic human rights. As we watch Victoria and Marvel at work, negotiating with police and prison authorities, advising and at times cajoling the women they have come to help, it becomes clear how daunting that task is.
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Happy to have a Sierra Leonean woman covering such stories
Seems most of the comments didn't even watch the video. These women are being extorted for money and sex, and those that can't pay are being charged with such petty crimes that don't even deserve a charge.
Nothin wrong with that. African capitalism
@@JesusRocksTryPrayinÁfrica is socialist not capitalist
so the police officer takes my food that im selling, and refuses to pay for it, so i curse them, and that warrants the right to jail me??
That how they are just jailing the people them unnecessarily by violating the People right because of no justice
Rough my bro.
I really appreciate you people to put this video on TH-cam, thanks to all those who are helping salone women, I was born there but don't grow up there,I love salone, God bless salone Amen.
that poor child in prison 😢.... heartbreaking .
No official should brag about how great their city is if the women and children are mistreated. Insane behavior
😢😢😢 oh my God I'm tired of receiving sharp pains in my heart, my country is seriously sick God have mercy
@MrPlex fighting is also a remedy to destruction of innocent lives
Try leave
@@footballempire6492 Been a patriotic citizen of any nation takes a good heart
If there is a God he obviously doesn't give a shit.
I think your belief in god is part of the problem. The gods will not save you, you all have to save yourself. Religion causes division and greed... and all those greedy police want money, will your gods just give you money?
African countries are corrupt to the core but this one is on another level. How can people be arrested and charged for loitering? This got me sick to the stomach.
Oh silly you thinking its much different in other toiletholes of Africa
My Heart Cries Out!! Queens Of The Earth Freedom Is A Basic Human Right! Food clothes and shelter
Sad to watch.... But how nice seeing Muslim ladies and Christians praying side by side.. . I like that.
Life should be like that, imo. No more religious violence. Just peace.
Christians and Muslims tend to have a close relationship in west african countries such as Sierra Leone. Despite muslims being a strong majority, most of their presidents have been from the Christianity minority, although apparently thats never really been an issue. This is still the case in many African countries which only ever get mentioned in Western media when Boko Haram attack it, which leads people to assume the actual populace is religiously divided.
Bro everyone in sierra leone grew up educated in islam and Christianity
Indoctrinated Religion is what got them there in the first place.... Religion and Misogyny: Don't want to get into bed with EITHER OF THEM AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU. Religion is the Hemorrhoid on the arsehole of humanity, it keeps women oppressed, it stops them from having a full and free life and without the burden of Gendered hatred in the name of a book that was written by a MAN. Not a God, but a MAN. The best gift anyone can give to their own daughter?.. Freedom from Religion of course !.
In Sierra Leone our religious tolerance is extremely high
This really sad and heart breaking to see what these women are going through behind bars. I still can’t believe that the women prisoners don’t have food unless they have to do sex in exchange with what they have to eat. I feel so bad right now and it is so shameful that this is happening in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱.
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@@habbilh.o213I just came across your comment. It tells me who raised you and from what type cage.
"Sexist Prison" are you fucking kidding me? have you seen the male prisons there even young boys are in general inmate population (anybody with good head on their shoulder knows what that means) this is heaven compared to male prisons in Sierra Leone.
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Shut up
Coming from a man himself……🙄
What good humans these paralegals are.
So the Guard in charge can put anyone in prison if they give him a headache? I imagine every person takes advantage of their job in that country. What hell it must be living there.
No. He put her in segregation for giving him a headache. She was already in Prison.
I guess you didn't understand the engelish of the guard. He said he would put anyone into segregation who gives him headache since they are already in presion and that's normal in all prisons all around the globe 🌍.
@@Bloxie-g8l Thank you for clarifying that. You might be pleased to know that some prisons are not as harsh as that.
I'm privileged to be a South African
south Africa has the 3rd highest crime rate in the whole world. goodbye.
who else's parents are from Sierra Leon? my parents are from Free Town
Kambia here
These women are doing a great job
I weep for level of poverty in Africa, jus imagine how unfed this so call police officers look
I was falsely accused by shoplifting and throwing rubbish to the ground... It still hurts after 8 years. I have never been in that shop again after that. I used to shop from them on a regular basis before the incident but now they won't get a penny from me.
I am so sorry
@@shanabenjamin8945 12 years... Still hurts :(
Lol 😆🤣 man I don't think this is the video to put that in the comments
So sorry to hear about your pain sister 😢
Thanks for this good works 🇳🇬
This just break my heart 😰
My heart goes out to them struggling with poverty, and while I think that she's right in fighting for people whose only crime was stealing food to survive, they should be forgiving. I do think that this is quite a dishonest documentary, to claim that this is sexism or somehow an injustice against women.
+matthew steenburg I agreed with everything that you said until you mentioned that this isn't sexism or an injustice against women. As mentioned in the video, women's incarceration rates are soaring and also women are subjected to being locked up for illegal reasons (loitering because prostitution is legal for example) and of course it's women who are being abused sexually by the so-called police (remember the woman who mentioned that she knew women who were taken behind the station and made to have sex with the "police" w/out a condom). This is enough for me to show injustice for women in this doc. BTW, in any extremely poor country such as SL, women will always have it worse than the men. This is a fact- sure everyone's poor, but women in these countries are subjected to domestic violence, sexual assault and too many other things to list here. In closing, Afghanistan for example, has a rate of approximately 90% of women/girls living there being victims of some type (or several types) of abuse in their own families.
There was a kid in the US whose mother did 5 years in prison for lying about her address to get her child in school. And a kid that was facing up to 5 years in prison for stealing milk in 2017 thank God social media get the prosecutors to drop the charges.
@@machruk do youbwatch Search for Uhuru
You're just as bad as they are over there the men want to be man a real man would stand up for the woman woman's right right but I guess there's too many cowards too many cowards
Sorry for this kind of corrupt police, it's of a high level
To any one in this comments section accusing this video of being, and I quote, "Feminist bull sh*t", feminism and sexism are not the same in this context. True feminism is: 1. Equal rights (achieved or somewhat achieved in most countries) 2. Social Equality, not being seen as inferior to men in a social setting or in society in general.
Sexism is usually related to abuse, violation of rights, and miscarriage of justice due to your gender.
This is really sad for the women and kids especially the females they get very disrespect none treat it like raw meat and that poor little child and all children but that's God's sake how to save lives and quit using abusing they deserve the right to live free will and not be used at six slaves messed up
This is really sad for the women and kids especially the females they get very disrespect none treat it like raw meat and that poor little child and all children but that's God's sake how to save lives and quit using abusing they deserve the right to live free will and not be used at six slaves messed up
thanks for the informative video....
Thank you paralegals for caring and giving of yourself in taking these women and children to heart. The cure is to end corruption in law enforcement !! Despicable humans in positions of power. Peace & Love ❤️🙏
Do younwatch Jim Nduruchi
So sad.... Such a corrupt justice system.
I weep for them the inhumane treatment of our sisters in Sierra Leone.😭😭🙏
This is so touching, I pray for GOD 🙏 to help this women and grant them divine favour in Jesus name amen
Amen 🙏
That's just so wrong.
I don't get why someone could become this evil and do this.
Thank you, thank you so much for this
It's sad to watch but the whole story it's true.
the young are locked up with their mothers, wow ...
That’s common all over the world. Many prisons in the US do this as well until the child reaches a certain age.
@D W Because there are no other options right? Smh
God Almighty save my country Sierra Leone
Congratulations sisters keep up your good work!!!!! As salaam alaikum!
Victoria is beautiful, would look much more so with her natural hair and not a perm or hair hat ... but thats neither here nor there
SouFLoTV @ TH-cam YES she is very pretty!
Sheba Newfreedom And their accents sounds similar to Jamaican patois.....just saying!
+SouFLoTV @ TH-cam yes it is neither here nor there then why comment on her hair??// did you watch the video????/ was it a hair style video??? really their is no soul flow with you!!!!!!!!!
Be Ing there is no soul flow with me because its SOU FOR SOUTH , AND FLO, FOR FLORIDA ...
like i said no soul flow
i would definitely still choose to be in solitary here than in say America or Germany or England, where they lock you in a steel and concrete box and all you ever see is 4 white walls, the ceiling and the floor , with a slot in the door to push a tray through,,,,now that is animal
May the good Lord God have Mercy on his people
Once women have to provide for themselves and their children, their crime and incarceration rate goes up. Who would've thought?
*African Women
Angela .M yes, African Men.
The point Adrian was making was that crime isn't a gendered issue. When men have to win the bread, they're the ones who commit the crimes when they can't. When its women, then women start committing the same crimes. Be honest with yourselves.
Angela .M How where these women extremely oppressed from the day they were born ?
matthew steenburg
Thanks Matthew, that's all I was trying to say. A lot (if not the majority) of crime is done by small people to provide for themselves and their families. Traditionally this is the boyfriend/husband going out and acting in violation of the law in a calculated manner.
I really have a problem about how racist and sexist the comments in this section are
Don't read them! Now your problems are gone!
Sure friend as white personn with a Mexican family i don’t your skin in any way make of change who people now culturally we all different which can be great people who make dumb comments often don’t understand the world or are just stupid let it
Go over your head I used to get angry over it’s not worth the stress my
if only sierra leone is well build and develop it will be the most beautiful African country in the world, sierra leone have all the riches,,,if only we have good government
government is just people.
Good you're right dear
We’re one in Africa. I can hear Nigeria 🇳🇬 pidgin be spoken. May God heal Sirea Lone 🇸🇱
we don’t speak pidgin in Sierra Leone. we speak Krio. why does every nigerian i come across think we speak pidgin😂
@@mariatt293 it’s pidgin English.
@@mariatt293 same thing, different name
This is so depressing 😞
Peace & Prosperity, Equity & Equality, Please come to Sierra, Leone women & people all over the world.
It's sad that women have to go through this, even if you done something wrong you shouldn't have to go through that kind of life style...
Where are you?
But men should?
@@SergyMilitaryRankings"I like pancakes."So you hate waffles?" This video is about women. No where did they say that men should suffer. You just want to argue and divert focus over a harmless statement
@@binnie2150 saying that it's just sad women go through it implies it's not when men do
@@SergyMilitaryRankings That doesn't imply that at all. Hence the pancake quote. Talking about one thing doesn't exclude the other because the topic is different. Of course, absolutely no gender should go through what these women are experiencing
Good luck to all prisoners everywhere!!👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏
Only 400 lawyers, you said it as if Sierra Leone is a big country that needs thousands instead
07:49 No that's not a hearty laugh. Its a laugh of 'Oh lord.......... More was about to come into this world, only to suffer the same as this child front of me?'
I feel very sorry for this woman in prison, I think too much bad things have happened in Sierra Leone that to some extent can psychologically make one loose moral. Please forgive her for the sake of her small child.
Beautiful to see Christians, traditionalists and Muslims all worshipping together despite the conditions and the environment. Multidenominational.
wtf, i misread it as 'sexiest' :D
That would be awesome
😂😂
I'm always amazed to see living conditions in the 3rd world. It seems like wherever they attempt to emulate the developed world, that they are made worse off. Sierra Leone has semi and precocious gemstones and gold, and I'm sure a number of other commodities that should increase the overall standard of living, yet it doesn't. Compare that with the way the Masi live, or Brazil's native Indian tribes still living traditional lifestyles, and you can see that those people are happier.
It's simple due to imperialistic hands playing the dirty game of conflict within the nation to exploit their resources. Talk about De Beers and Dior's ..and correct politicians to let this happen for exchange of money.
Who are the Masi? And do you know how condescending, and illiterate u sound?
Thank you so much for sharing ❤️🙏🏻🕊✌🏻🇸🇱🌎🌍🌏❤️🙏🏻✌🏻🕊🙏🏻🙏🏻🇸🇱
I feel sorry for everybody living there, especially the stray dogs they keep showing in the background. Animals must have even more miserable lives than the humans. Sad.
Heather Gray. I feel sorry for dogs everywhere... Personally I prefer them to people...I have six lovely dogs and truth to tell I love them more than life itself. Greetings from the Philipines.
@@wcstevens7 Nice comment. i have the same feelings for but for all animals.
You are so not funny
@@wcstevens7👹
May the universe bless you Victoria.
This is what actual inequality looks like
I really love Victoria's energy. She rocks!
Am from Sierra Leone thank you vitrorie for your support
I HOPE AND PRAY THAT YOU SUPER WOMEN KEEP THIS UP💪🏾💯👍🏾💗❗️❗️❗️
I TRULY WISH I COULD DO SOMETHING😢😢😢❗️❗️❗️
I feel sorry for my country spécial the woman with the children
i don't see any documentaries on the sexist prison systems of western countries, or are rights issues for men not covered by feminism?
The female prison system in Australia is a national disgrace. The majority are incarcerated for "lying to Police"... imagine if they started locking up men for the same offence?. www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-20/womens-prisons-full-of-domestic-violence-victims/10599232
Men cover men! Plenty of coverage of men covered by men every day. Read the daily newspapers of the world. One coverage of women by women and you whine.😮
This is pure wickedness poverty, victimization, war victims, and false accusations against these black women. They need to free these innocent women and give them a fresh start in life.
Very sad indeed these para legal aid ladies are a god send God bless 🙏 them they also are beautiful good features good teeth etc
Had to stop watching it’s very sad. Being poor can lead to so much crime. I hope to God things get better
You guys are always good of taking the negatives of Africa to your country and bring us the nicest of your in mine shame to those men that give you negatiness to take with you and dumbs are the ones that believe what you have sayed .God helps you all Girls amen
Terrible! I hope and pray eight years on things have improved greatly but I fear realistically they haven't... I do not take for granted my freedom and opportunities. I pray for these women.
*BLM* : "We'll pretend we didn't see that"
Since the abuse of the people this is what happens afterwards.
I clicked on cuz I thought it said sexiest prob system!! I’m like what the hell?! lol
So why do you share with the whole world how stupid you are???
After going through the comments, I can confidently say this prison is much better, it even looks like a home. The problem is the lack of movement, the same like a person put under palace arrest
No State Benefits? No Family Planning
This is so sad
People of color it is past time to raise our consciousness.
The sexism in this documentary is the notion that women who commit crime are somehow more driven by circumstances than men who commit crime. Well what should I expect with a woman narrating.
Am really feeling pain 😢 for my country my country is very poor
Oh my God, too sad to see all these sorrows. God, you are a MERCIFUL God, please care your children. It is almost hard to believe. We pray for your favour only because who will look after these victims. Amen.
I once worked with a male RN at the Tehachapi State Prison, I WAS ON A 6 MONTH CONTRACT. I found him to be a Jolly fellow,. He told everybody how he couldn't wait to go on vacation to Asia, where he straight out said"i can buy little boys of any age"...I was so disgusted. Not by him so much as I was with everyone else who knew that this his perpetual habit!??? So wrong in EVERYWAY!!!!
We are living in a corrupt world which will only become more corrupt.Proverbs 14,34.Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.Romans 10,4.For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result,all who believe in him are made right with God.
The prison guards the magistrate that hears the cases they're all corrupt he really want them to pay money she will be out of there faster than you can say hey keep your nose clean just stay out of trouble it all boils down to money dirty bastards
Seems like becoming a lawyer there is a waste of time.
Doesn’t seem like these paralegals are no better off then the women they’re representing!
My family is from Sierra Leone: they're the more wealthier people. My uncle let my cousin drive underage and we got pulled over. We were able to bribe them
That's the reason why the country is in such a state corruption and bribery
Okay @Hello and your point is???
vino peroni this is not invented English by serielone this is known as pidgin English.we Nigerians speak it pretty better and more fluent even Ghana speak it too.most countries in west Africa that speak English do speak pidgin.and for this country police officers are stupid and oppressed d poor how can you buy pepper soup from a woman and arrest her instead of paying for what you bought but all I know God is watching
Those are the creole people from Sierra Leone. It's not pidgin, I've heard Nigerian Pidgin English and although I understand most of it not all the words are the same
Y'all this is Krio, it is the national language of Sierra Leone. It sounds similar to nigerian pidgin, jamaican patios, broken English, but it is Krio.
So much corruption in this world
It no news, it happens in my country Nigeria, I hope the authorities will change their attitude towards prisoners.
These county need more NGO to help this country too much problem all around this nation sierra Leone
The justice system in my country is very corrupt.SL
God we need you in Africa 😭
God don't have time for those who won't save themselves
This is so sad and violation of human rights for this poor women...those women shouldn't be there for crying out loud. 😢😢😢
With all this attitude of police 👮♀️ in Africa, Africa will not move forward. God forbid
stop doing crime
This chief is rather irrate! These children made me cry!!
How can l get in touch with Marvel or Victoria. I want to help.
through the advocaid website i think
Any nigerian here? These people speak and behave like Nigerians
15:52 the girl in the green is a bit exposed if no one realized
I hate seeing people suffering, imagine born in poverty and dies on it...and this countries governments needs to be taken to Criminal court in Hague those countries got wealth and enough rain that can grow food for the population.
What a mess, UN should go in and take charge of the country
UN ain't ish
the most important thing is to stay away from crime
Easy to say when you're not living in poverty with no job opportunities
A paralegal should not being having to live with 2 different families. These people should. Be making more money to do such just no wonder why there is so few lawyers and so many in prison.
what what type of men is over there this is a shameful thing on a man
Corruption at its finest..