Donna Hylton

Women In Solitary Confinement

... his hands to begin a search. "I had been molested as a girl," she explained. "I didn't realize he was going to search me. All I knew was that he put his hands on me." Hylton pushed him, leading to an altercation where other staff members wrestled her to the ground and handcuffed her. The sergeant whose sexual advances she had tried to report joined in, ultimately charging her with possession of money and assault on staff. She was sent to the Special Housing Unit. In the SHU, women were allowed one hour of recreation time out of their cell each day. As in the federal system and many other state systems, recreation consists of spending time in a cage outside. "There's a stone table with stone slabs you can sit on," Hylton described. "It's a little bigger than your average-sized bathroom. It has razor wire over the top of the rec yard. There's also a gun tower." Showers lasted five minutes. "By the time you take off your ...

Owings Woman Arrested For Shoplifting At Walmart In Dunkirk

... to return to the store), Theft Less than $100.00, and Possession of Controlled Paraphernalia (a Jail inventory search revealed a hypodermic syringe in a pocket of her purse). Donna Hylton, 50, of Owings. This entry was posted on October 5, 2016 at 2:59 am and is filed under All News , Calvert News , County , Law Enforcement , Top News , z Police Ad Top. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. 18 Responses to Owings Woman Arrested for Shoplifting at Walmart in Dunkirk. Morriqui on October 5, 2016 at 4:32 am. It was an accident. Intent was to pay for the bag but the Walmart Mafia jumped the gun and just wanted to bust her for no apparent good reason. SHAMELESS. Spanky on October 5, 2016 at 9:59 am. Stick with that defense when you go before the Judge. “The bag set me up”. Christie on October 5, 2016 at 11:05 am. Apparently you did not read the article. Stop enabling people. Anonymous on October 5, 2016 at 11:33 am. Is this you, DONNA. Anonymous on October 5, ...

Drug War's Collateral Lifers Seek Freedom

... in a federal facility in Aliceville, Alabama, through a video conference. Johnson is 61 years old and has spent a third of her life in prison. (They also heard from women currently incarcerated in Indiana.). Johnson is a mother and now a grandmother of grandchildren she’s never seen. She never sold any drugs, never held them for anyone, never acted as a drug mule or manufactured any drugs. But she passed messages to people involved in selling drugs for money. When the feds swept in to take down an operation that she technically was part of, her life was swept away, too. She said what she did was wrong, but so is sentencing a non-violent, first-time offender like her to life in prison. She has been in prison for 20 years. Unless she is granted clemency, she will die there. “I’m speaking to future leaders of America,” she said. “Judges, prosecutors and maybe a future president. Yale has a history of producing presidents. Mass incarceration has failed. It’s a drain on society.”. Locked Down For Life. Santra Rucker’s sentence has been reduced to 25 years after an appeal. She’s served 19 years already. Her daughter and many of the advocates in the room said they want ...

What You Need To Know About The Women's March On Washington

... Linked In Pinterest. What you need to know about the Women's March on Washington. Organizers of the march released their final lists of artists, entertainers and speakers who will appear at the event. Post to Facebook. What you need to know about the Women's March on Washington Organizers of the march released their final lists of artists, entertainers and speakers who will appear at the event. Check out this story on __link__: __link__ j Ih WAX. Cancel Send. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs. What you need to know about the Women's March on Washington. Ray Locker , USA TODAY Published 5:31 p.m. ET Jan. 20, 2017 | Updated 9:32 a.m. ET Jan. 21, 2017. 1.3 k Shares. The day after Trump's inauguration, thousands of women have organized to march on Washington in support of women's rights and affordable healthcare. USA TODAY NETWORK. Women with bright pink hats ...

Gloria Steinem Leads Final Talking Circle For Annie Leibovitz's 'women

... and the fact that there were several former inmates in attendance. Steinem opened the floor by discussing talking circles as the original form of governance used by the elders of Manahatta, before the island became the towering, over-populated metropolis it is now. She talked about the primordial aspect of eye-to-eye discussion, saying "it makes all the difference." Steinem ended on an optimistic note before commencing the discussion: "Find something here, tonight, that makes your life better, and a little more hopeful.". By leveling the playing field, the crowd was encouraged to speak, and a variety of voices came into the forum, from the founding architect of Studio 2 Sustain in Massachusetts , to a retired NYC firefighter. Supreme Court Justice Betty Williams, who was sitting not two seats away from me, also took to the mic, encouraging everyone present to "take responsibility for [their] communities.]" These women, all from completely different walks of life, were equally inspiring, and highlighted different voices ...

Who Are 'the People' In These New Political Times

... prefer it if Hillary, the personification of establishment, were overseeing the world. Here’s an important political word: dissent. It means ‘not to assent… to think differently’. Who does that apply to better: those who defied the warnings of the mainstream political set, global institutions and pretty much every celebrity on Earth in order to say ‘No’ to the EU and ‘Yes’ to Trump, or those who’ve spent the past few months pleading for the EU’s survival and mourning Hillary’s loss? I think we know. This is the bizarreness of political language post-2016: the millions who rejected European bureaucracy and American politics-as-normal are branded conservative and fearful, while the right-on taking to the courts, the streets and the media to say ‘Save the EU’ and ‘We want Hillary’ flatter themselves with the language of resistance and revolt. Let’s get language back into proportion with reality. The uncomfortable fact is this: the women who voted for Trump deserve the title of dissenter far more than the women who marched against him on Saturday. Subscribe to The Spectator today for a quality of ...

Keeping Rehabilitated Inmates Behind Bars Makes A Mockery Of America’s So-called Justice System

... were when they were 30.”. Also, only non-violent offenders are eligible, and they still must be living in New York. What’s more, they’re not necessarily permanent pardons. The juvenile pardons the governor is offering are conditional. If there’s a new conviction, the pardon is overturned. The other, potentially more inclusive action Cuomo announced last year was a plan for expanded clemency offerings. In October, on the same day he announced his first two sentence commutations, the governor also announced plans for a partnership that would provide those seeking clemency with pro bono legal resources to help them through the application process. The release doesn’t make clear whether the governor plans to focus that program on commutations or pardons, but advocates are hoping it’s the former. To be clear, although we might wish that the Donna Hyltons of the world could be released sooner, there are also plenty of people who don’t deserve clemency. I served state prison time, and I certainly met people who were not committed to the rehabilitation process and did not deserve an early release. But I also met wonderful, giving women—women like Donna—who made a mistake, paid ...

The Women Movement’s Embrace Of Rape-torturer Psychopath Donna Hylton

... Who Speak for Women. Total: 10.0 K. Via Twitter, on a Reddit foru m, I stumbled over this horrifying story: Donna Hylton, a woman who spent time in prison for participating in the kidnapping, rape, murder, and ransoming of a gay man, spoke at the Women’s March as an advocate for women of color. Here, Donna Hylton, is being interviewed by CGTN or the Chinese Government Television Network. Here she is at the Women’s March (go to 12:05 in the video to see her otherwise be stuck watching Cecile Richards). What did this woman do? From Psychology Today, this. Vigliarole believed the three girls were prostitutes who were going to have sex with him. Instead, they picked him up on March 8 in Elmhurst, Queens, at Maria’s home, and drugged him to make him drowsy. Then they drove him to Selma’s apartment in ...

Hiv Advocates Turn To Parole Reform, Seeking Release Of Aging Prisoners

... to that. Sentenced to 15 years to life for the attempted murder of a police officer, Farid appeared before the parole board ten times. Each time, the board seemed to care less about the college degrees and program certifications he had earned during his imprisonment and more about his 1978 conviction. He recalls that, at his fifth hearing, he asked the board what steps he could take to improve his chances. "They actually got angry that I asked that question," he recalled. It was not until his tenth hearing, in 2011, that Farid was granted parole. That same year, New York State passed a law directing the parole board to begin using risk-assessment tools in its decision-making. It took the Division of Parole two years to post regulations complying with the law ; even now, however, the parole board continues to deny parole based on a person's past crime. In 2013, for instance, only one-in-six parole applicants were granted parole. Nevertheless, the state's own studies show that ...