Today, Donna Hylton is a groundbreaking advocate for criminal
justice reform--she was a featured speaker at the 2017 Women's
March on Washington, and she works hand-in-hand with other
influential voices such as Eve Ensler, Michelle Alexander (The New
Jim Crow), and Rosario Dawson to ensure prison safety and to end
mass incarceration in the US. In fact, Dawson has signed on to play
Hylton in a movie that's in development now. But in 1986, Hylton
experienced prison from the inside when she was sentenced to 25
years-to-life for kidnapping and second-degree murder. Like so many
women before her and so many women yet to come, her life had been a
nightmare of abuse that left her feeling alone and convinced of her
worthlessness. With her sentencing, it seemed that Donna had
reached the end--at age 19, due to her own mistakes and bad
choices, her life was over. But behind the bars of Bedford Hills
Correctional Facility, alongside this generation's most infamous
female criminals, Donna learned to fight -- and then, to thrive.
For the first time in her life, she realized that she was not alone
in the abuse and misogyny that she experienced; as she bonded with
her new sisters, she discovered that her pain was not an anomaly,
but a commonality among women from all walks of life. It's a
reality that she has since vowed to change. Since her release in
2012, Donna has emerged as a leading advocate for criminal justice
reform and women's rights who speaks with politicians, violent
abusers, prison officials, victims, and students to tell her story.
But it's not her story alone, she is quick to say. She also
represents the stories of thousands of women who are unable to
speak for themselves because they've been silenced, imprisoned, or
killed.
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