Prison is no place for women and girls | Topeka K. Sam | TEDxMidAtlantic

While in Federal Prison, Topeka K. Sam witnessed firsthand the epidemic and disparity of incarceration on women, most specifically women of color. She felt the urgency to bring the faces and voices of women in prison to the public in order to bring awareness to women's incarceration and post-incarceration issues in order to change the criminal legal system.
After her release in 2015 and in response to what she saw and learned in prison, Topeka created Ladies of Hope Ministries (LOHM) an organization whose mission is to help disenfranchised and marginalized women transition back into society through education, entrepreneurship, spiritual empowerment, and advocacy. Hope House is safe housing space for formerly incarcerated women, located in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx. With Vanee Sykes, Topeka developed the vision for Hope House while they were incarcerated.
Topeka Sam is a 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship recipient. Her fellowship, The Parole, Probation Accountability Project focuses on the broken and arbitrary probation and parole systems. Her op-ed, It's Time to Overhaul America's Broken Probation and Parole Systems, was published widely. Sam is a 2015 Beyond the Bars Fellow and a 2016 Justice in Education Scholar at Columbia University.

[@Berxy]

And men? Prison in America is way worse for men

[@iamthek]

Why limited to just Women and girls, I swear women only think of themselves as if the struggles of life and pain exist around them.

[@binjibinji2933]

Ur fuckin right bro

[@beautifulsoulny7243]

Because when it comes to jail it’s mostly men that’s been spoken about & she’s a female and she speaking on her experience

[@Nikotheleepic]

@@beautifulsoulny7243 then don't make conclusions only about women, you ficking brain damaged tard

[@georgerockwell6124]

worse than the sam hyde ted talk

[@iamsancho443]

the Sam Hyde talk was based

[@roadrunner5549]

I mean you set the bar very high with that so it's not surprising that she falls short but yes this one sucks

[@MastaOfMonkeyDisasta]

You are a man of high culture and exquisite taste I see, I tip my top hat to you my good gentleman. I eagerly await the sea cabbage salads and pleasure domes.

[@MastaOfMonkeyDisasta]

Men in prison, women most affected.

[@tarheelskk]

We aren’t sending enough men to prison am i right ladies?

[@awesomefirefist]

@George Fentanyl Floyd no no no a woman could never do anything wrong don't you know? they're special

[@noblemystrey6605]

@George Fentanyl Floyd atleast our sons aren’t whores

[@RandomGuy-bx2wv]

"Aren't I so FeArlEsS for illegally selling drugs and going to prison? I was so brave, I'm such a great person. I expect no one here to think that I'm a felon who shouldn't be given an audience, even though I just told you that I'm a felon who shouldn't be given an audience."

[@Nilruin]

But what about women being mistreated in prisons? Surely they deserve to be treated the same as men in prison, right? Men must have it so much better than women when they're incarcerated!
Wait, hold on...

[@Norogoth]

AMEN

[@PandoraWasCurious]

Nailed it! 🎯

[@Societyman123]

Boo

[@mikesummers5019]

So is she saying women shouldn’t be put in jail or prison ever?

[@Raven-ug8uw]

🤏🏿🤏🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿

[@rosemarycat5]

i'm confused; is the goal to end end the abuse of incarcerated women (which i am very pro)or to stop guilty women from serving time?

[@rashidagovan7662]

Do you not hear her saying she was guilty? Guilty or not, people deserve to be treated with dignity. Anything other than that is criminal.

[@rashidagovan7662]

She's talking, in part, about fair sentencing.

[@judedumatteo3413]

Rashida Govan does she really

[@judedumatteo3413]

there are more people incararated we have such a shortage of prison and over crowded and not enough programs to help reabilate the man and women in our society

[@dsmyify]

The American prison system needs a huge overhaul. The statistics on the number of people incarcerated for life in prison for small offenses, like stealing bread, would make you cry. I believe this talk is about unjust sentencing rather than stopping woman, who have broken the law, from going to prison. The description of the video could have been better, it invites controversy for those unwilling to listen passed their initial assumptions.

[@Luke-rt9bx]

Well it’s statistically proven that men get more prison time then women for the same offences

[@Outfires]

Any examples of that?

[@thelabs7128]

I’d love to hear about all the people sent to prison for life for stealing bread I’m sure you can point to many specific cases

[@troycrithll2918]

Cetl

[@karladenisethomas4339]

Great work!!!

[@roseh1132]

💜💚💜💚💜💚

[@lindajackson5143]

No one should live in cages.

[@dethklokicksbutt]

Yes they should 😂

[@Outfires]

Actually, they should.

[@AverageBuddhist88]

What is the alternative? Say a person kills like 5 people for example, what is the solution? I would like to know your solution. Just let them back into society?

[@sadbirdsstillsing6011]

Some people get 18, 20 minutes and yet she got 14, why?