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The Creativity, Innovation And Ingenuity Languishing In US Prisons | Brittany K. Barnett | TED

The freedom journey doesn’t end when someone is released from prison. In many ways, it begins. Attorney and entrepreneur Brittany K. Barnett fights to free people from prison and champions restoring and nurturing the creative ingenuity of justice-impacted people. Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more.…

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The freedom journey doesn’t end when someone is released from prison. In many ways, it begins. Attorney and entrepreneur Brittany K. Barnett fights to free people from prison and champions restoring and nurturing the creative ingenuity of justice-impacted people.

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31 Comments

  1. BayArea’Za

    March 1, 2022 at 8:07 pm

    All Gun laws are infringement.

  2. FUN JOY KNOWLEDGE

    March 1, 2022 at 8:08 pm

    But still that is drugs why life with out parole. he didnt murder million people like america did in Iraq

  3. Dr. ANIL KUMAR OFFICIAL(Business &Lifecoach,short)

    March 1, 2022 at 8:08 pm

    Please support me guise

  4. Red Eagle

    March 1, 2022 at 8:10 pm

    This is what happens when you arrest people unfairly. You lose their potential talent and hinder the development of society.

    • Dtectr

      March 2, 2022 at 2:45 am

      Truly the “Conservative” agenda. conserve in this case meaning holding humanity back.

  5. ianbearpig

    March 1, 2022 at 8:10 pm

    Yeah we shoulda never locked up kaczynski…. total waste of talent

  6. InMaTeofDeath

    March 1, 2022 at 8:14 pm

    Wouldn’t a good first step to be to get rid of for profit prisons?

  7. sevgi

    March 1, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    ❤❤❤

  8. SEEDHA RAASTA

    March 1, 2022 at 8:16 pm

    TED ♥

  9. Gaasuba Meskhenet

    March 1, 2022 at 8:19 pm

    No more evictions from primary residences!!

  10. Stephen Catton

    March 1, 2022 at 8:23 pm

    Never mind the victims of these criminals….

    • ken juan

      March 2, 2022 at 5:07 am

      Where there is demand someone will supply…

  11. Katarina Janoskova

    March 1, 2022 at 8:36 pm

    Great talk. So many people imprisoned for being poor. They need to be helped, not imprisoned so someone else can become super rich by running a bunch of prisons.
    How many people currently in US’s prisons would not have been there if they had the chance to grow up with at least the basics of access to a safe home, good food and a good school.

    • Jeremy Powell

      March 2, 2022 at 6:11 am

      Uh he did commit a crime,. the poor are slaves today, poverty has no skin color, and no one is JUST sent to prison

  12. Joshua W

    March 1, 2022 at 9:46 pm

    A person’s true character can only be realized in an environment where they have every opportunity to become their best self. For the same reason that no one knows the depravity within their own heart until they have been pushed to their limits, no one knows the potential good that can come from a person if they have been loved to their limits.

    • Jeremy Powell

      March 2, 2022 at 6:10 am

      tell that too all “Influencers” who were born rich

    • Joshua W

      March 2, 2022 at 9:27 am

      @Jeremy Powell Just because you are rich doesn’t mean you were raised well. On the contrary, rich people often had terrible parents who worked too much and neglected them.

    • Herji kolbrúnarson

      March 3, 2022 at 12:49 pm

      I’m going to want to steal that quote from you buddy

    • Jeremy Powell

      March 3, 2022 at 8:47 pm

      @Herji kolbrúnarson Children in the Oklahoma Foster system were placed there for non crimes,. Poverty, religion choice, Homeschooling,… And not one child is above the poverty line,. Rich kids have free reign,. all the resources, and the worst Choices, Just because they weren’t hugged doesn’t mean they have a mental illness

  13. Susan Horton

    March 1, 2022 at 10:29 pm

    agreed

  14. Katherine Morales

    March 1, 2022 at 11:10 pm

    Beautiful ted talk

  15. Diane Daniels

    March 1, 2022 at 11:28 pm

    WHAT A WONDERFUL TALK. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO LISTEN. VISON AND PURPOSE.

  16. LaTeesha Smith

    March 1, 2022 at 11:29 pm

    ❤❤❤❤

  17. Ligia Sommers

    March 2, 2022 at 1:13 am

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻❤️‍🩹✨🌹

  18. Pradeep Inani

    March 2, 2022 at 3:15 am

    If these people were not in US prison they would have continued selling drugs thanks us prison for bringing the talent out from such people.

  19. ken juan

    March 2, 2022 at 5:08 am

    Non violent crimes should not have a life sentence ever…meanwhile the company that has caused the opioid crisis has gone Scott free with a slap on the wrist.

  20. Jeremy Powell

    March 2, 2022 at 6:10 am

    Wow Artistic people can be criminals as well,. Lets just let off all the Wrong doers,. And arrest all the untalented,..

  21. Karla britfeld

    March 2, 2022 at 6:22 am

    Legalize drugs and these problems go away.

  22. Robyn Giselle

    March 2, 2022 at 10:33 am

    I’m a Black woman. And I’m tired of hearing about black men.

  23. Robyn Giselle

    March 2, 2022 at 10:36 am

    How about the creativity, ingenuity and innovation languishing from black women and girls who are neglected, ignored and scapegoated by their own community.

  24. EEEEEEEE

    March 2, 2022 at 3:24 pm

    This kind of videos hit hard at 2 am

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