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Mar 26, 2017 7:10 PM UTC  @martha\_weddings—Instagram by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Mar 26, 2017 7:10 PM UTC _Orange Is the New Black_ star [Samira Wiley](http://time.com/4518407/samira-wiley-lauren-morelli/) married her longtime partner Lauren Morelli on Saturday. Wiley and Morelli, a writer and producer for [_Orange Is the New Black_](http://time.com/collection-post/4549564/danielle-brooks-american-voices/), married in an outdoor ceremony at Palm Springs, California that was officiated by Wiley’s parents, [Martha Stewart Weddings reported](http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/611583/samira-wiley-lauren-morelli-married-wedding-photos?utm%5Fsource=people&utm%5Fmedium=syndication&utm%5Fcampaign=samiraandlauren%5F032517). They both wore custom Christian Siriano ensembles — Wiley in a floor-length, off-the-shoulder ivory gown and Morelli in a caped white jumpsuit. The wedding day included a confetti theme to honor the couple’s love for Funfetti cake. The couple announced their engagement in October on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/whododatlikedat/) with Wiley showing off her ring with a big smile. “Yes,” she captioned the picture. Morelli wrote an essay back in 2014 about how she realized she was a lesbian shortly after she started working on the hit Netflix show. “I realized I was gay in fall 2012, one of my first days on the set,” she [wrote](https://mic.com/articles/89727/while-writing-for-orange-is-the-new-black-i-realized-i-am-gay). She eventually [divorced](http://people.com/celebrity/samira-wiley-lauren-morelli-married/) her husband and went public with her relationship with Wiley. ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ MUSIC ] I think everybody has seen at least one episode or in my case all episodes of Orange Is The New Black. It really, I think was the first time that Everyone around the country had an opportunity to see a show that really focused on women who are incarcerated. But you live that story and obviously you didn't anticipate going to prison. As you were going through that doors that first day, can you think of what was the most surprising to you? I think I went into that prison Frightened of other prisoners, and that's one of the things that changed most quickly for me. I'll never forget that first day, I was sort of shuffling up the hill with my pillows and sheets, being brought to where I would live and I saw a woman who was about eight months pregnant, and I was just confused. It hadn't even occurred to me. That they will be pregnant women in prison because pregnant women don't belong in prison quite frankly [ LAUGH ] so I came home from prison in 2005 and I really didn't know what I was going to do to make change but I knew that I had to do something because what I had witnessed. During my time incarcerated was not what I believed to be justice. I'm telling you, surviving here is all about perspective. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Don't eat the pudding. What's the perspective on the pudding? It comes in big cans marked dessert store Being incarcerated is incredibly difficult and dramatic. But one of the things that was important was that I found an incredible solidarity with the women that I did time with. I've met so many people particularly women who have been affected by the criminal justice system. I met a mom. Whose mother had lost custody of her when she was only one. And she had lost custody of both of her children as well. Both because of incarceration. And she said I am just continuing the cycle of my mom. I think about her all the time. I want everybody to be able to be responsible adults and parent their children, because if not we are just contributing to a downward spiral. That 30, 000 foot view where more and more Americans realize and recognize that, in fact, we put more of our citizens in prison then any nation has ever done in history. That's a bit of a wake up call. We know that the biggest providers of mental health care in this country are, tragically, Riker's Island The [ UNKNOWN ] jail and the LA county jail moments held in those jail facilities than anywhere else in this country and I do think those stories of individual people whether we know them you know personally or whether we see them you know portrayed fictionally are very very important. And so the idea of that our best possible response to those problems would a prison cell or a jail cell. I just know that we're better than that. It's one of the reasons why President Obama visited the El Reno Federal Penitentiary in Oklahoma. A sitting President had never visited a prison before. If we can. Keep on looking at the evidence, keep on looking at the facts, figure out what works. Then we can start making change. That will save taxpayers money, keep our streets safe, and perhaps most importantly, keep families intact and break this cycle in which young people, particularly young people of color, are so. [ UNKNOWN ] to end up in a criminal justice system that makes it harder for them to ever get a job and ever be effective full citizens of this country. And he wanted to do it to signal to the people who were there and to the general population. That these are citizens too and we should care about them and we should understand their stories and appreciate the toll that incarceration is having not just on them but on their children and their parents and their siblings. I remember when I was incarcerated I was trying to navigate through hundred and hundreds of women who I was incarcerated with and I learned so much about their lives. And I questioned why they were there. And some of them were doing a lot more time than I was doing. And the differences in those sentences seem to me to be to be largely attributable to the color of their skin. And there's also economic status. We have to be honest about the fact that there is a significant racial disparity in terms of who gets policed, who gets prosecuted and who gets punished with prison in this country. And it's really time for the [ UNKNOWN ] system to catch up with the progress we've made in other. Other areas on this country. On one way of getting to that is through data, is not just tell a story or two stories you have to actually be able to prove what's happening in order to drive the justice system to be just. We spend $ 80 billion a year on mess and cars restoration. Could we spend that money in a more constructive way. And so we like to give state and local elected officials the tools that they need to make informed decisions. That's the first step to change, and if you're willing to look at the data and be transparent, then you could put the spotlight on where you need to turn the levers. What I find is that everywhere I go in this country, young people are focused on these issues. They care a lot and they understand how it connects to the other things that we care about. Like public education, or public health. I'm very optimistic that we are going to make even more progress going forward. It's infectious. Young people should give us reason to be optimistic. They accept that to be a member of society means that you have to engage to try to make your society better. Those of us here in the White House and in the federal government have to make ourselves accessible as partners and encourage them to push us. That's the way it works. That's the way we all get better. And that I think your willingness, your bravery To share with a very personal and horrid story gives me reason to feel hopeful. 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