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Author: Donna Hylton

Donna Hylton is a women’s rights activist, criminal justice reform advocate, author and accomplished public speaker. After her release from prison, she founded A Little Piece of Light, an organization named after her memoir that advocates for the rights of system-impacted women and helps them re-enter society after incarceration. She is a founding member of The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and an alumna of the first cohort of Leading with Conviction Fellows of JustLeadershipUSA. Donna was incarcerated for over 25 years. She is on Twitter @DonnaHylton.
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The Truth Behind the Growing Number of Women Ending up in Prison

Donna Hylton

More than one million women are currently behind bars or controlled by the criminal justice system. The amount of incarcerated women has increased at practically double the rate of men since 1985, and the number of incarcerated women has increased by more than 700 percent since 1980. We need to ask ourselves why.

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