A vision of sustainable liberation for justice-impacted people | Brittany K. Barnett

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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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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. She shares stories of the innovation languishing in America’s prisons -- and a vision for investing in people whose unjust sentences interrupted their dreams to bring great things to the world.

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hu. In her work as an attorney, Brittany Barnett has gotten familiar with the criminal justice system and the people in it. In her talk at a TED salon in 2021, she shares the stories of the spirit, intellect, and humanity,
0:24.0	of the formerly incarcerated people she's gotten to know and how society would be better off
0:26.4	if the system better recognized their talent and potential.
0:33.4	About two years ago, I answered my doorbell
0:36.5	to find a postal worker holding a large, heavy box.
0:40.5	It was a package from my client, Chris Young.
0:44.3	Chris was being transferred from a federal prison in Kentucky to one hundreds of miles away in Texas.
0:51.6	When I slid open the box, the handwritten note from Chris fell out.
0:55.8	Please take care of these for me, Brittany.
0:58.5	I don't want to mess up in the move.
1:00.9	They're all I've got.
1:03.1	At the time I received the package, Chris was nearly 10 years
1:07.0	into serving a life without parole sentence
1:10.0	from an arrest for drug dealing at the young age of 22.
1:14.9	Chris and I have a lot in common, as I do with many of my clients.
1:19.1	We both had big dreams.
1:21.9	We both had mothers who suffered from drug addiction that led to their incarceration,
1:28.0	a devastating result of the war on drugs.
1:31.3	Like many people unjustly sentenced for drugs,
1:34.1	Chris was no keen pen.
1:36.1	Long before steel dug into the skin of his wrist,
1:38.7	he was handcuffed by a suffocating level of poverty,
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