Strawberry Hampton Speaks from Prison at the Chicago Reclaiming Pride Rally June 28 2020
Channel: Insane Films
Date: 2020-07-01

This is a speech given via telephone from prison by Strawberry Hampton at the Chicago Reclaiming Pride March on June 28, 2020. Please listen to her gut wrenching story of police brutality.
Strawberry Hampton is a trans woman who was incarcerated within the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). In December 2018, after a year-long legal battle against IDOC about the abuses she endured from inmates and correctional officers, she was transferred to a women’s facility. Her case is the second in the country in which a federal court recognized that a prison’s decision to mis-assign transgender people is a form of unlawful discrimination. She is an outspoken advocate against the human rights abuses trans women endure in the criminal justice system.