Donna Hylton

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

... on Washington in support of women's rights and affordable healthcare. USA TODAY NETWORK. Women with bright pink hats and signs gather early and are set to make their voices heard on the first full day of Donald Trump's presidency, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington. (Photo: Jose Luis Magana, AP). Organizers of the Women's March on Washington released Friday their final lists of artists, entertainers and speakers who will appear at the event to protest some of the planned policies from President Trump. Saturday's march will follow Trump's inauguration ceremony  on Friday, which saw thousands of supporters of the new president greeted by protesters. When will the events start. The rally before the march starts at 10 a.m. ET Saturday, and it is planned to end at 1:15 p.m. Where will it be. The rally will start at Third Street and Independent Avenue Southwest in Washington, not far from Capitol Hill, the U. S. Botanic Garden and the National Museum of the American Indian. The nearest Metro station is Federal Center, which is ...

Owings Woman Arrested For Shoplifting At Walmart In Dunkirk

... Trespassing on Private Property (from a previous situation where she was instructed not 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, 2016 at 2:47 pm. I guess the previous incident that got her banned from the ...

Women In Solitary Confinement

... Litwok was handcuffed, strip searched and sent to the SHU. There's little quiet in the SHU, Litwok explained. All day, women screamed, "Get me out of here! Get me the fuck out of here!" The screaming was always worse at night. Women who were on medication sometimes received a fraction of their prescription after being placed in the SHU. Litwok recalls that her cellmate was one of those women. "She was freaking out," she said. "It was clear that she couldn't take it. She kept asking, 'Why am I here? I'm not charged with anything.' ". Litwok was able to flag down the psychologist, who gave the woman the proper dosage for that one night. But the following day the medications were gone, and the woman's freak-out resumed. Two months later, Litwok's cellmate, who had been placed in SHU "under investigation," was released without charge. She was not the only one in the SHU whose charges were ultimately dropped. "I was with 60 women in the SHU," Litwok recalled. Most were awaiting the outcome of an investigation and hearing. "Everyone who was charged had their charges dropped or reduced," she stated. She remembered women accused of bringing in contraband. After ...

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

... the AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE) program, as well as the prison's parenting and college programs. Boudin recalled many occasions when administrators or volunteers led tours of media or administrators from other prisons who wanted to examine Bedford's programming. Each time, the guide began the tour by saying, "Most women are in for non-violent crimes.". Both then and now, Boudin sees the focus on non-violent convictions as erasing certain people's humanity, similar to to the ways in which people with HIV were treated during the 1980 s. "What happens is that people get frozen in that one act," she said. "You're struggling to be a full human being against the shrinking of yourself into one act that you wish you hadn't done. You're not seen as somebody who can change, who can make a major contribution to society.". Hylton, who spent 25.5 years in prison for her participation in a kidnapping and murder at the age of 19, agrees. "We are not the sum ...

Who Are 'the People' In These New Political Times

... word ‘women’ has become exclusive rather than inclusive: it really means ‘women with respectable views’. It erases the other women. I think the leftists agitating against Brexit and panicking about Trump need to be honest with themselves. They want to defend the status quo from the gruff anger of the public. They want the EU, the embodiment of intra-elite deal-making, to carry on, and they would 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 ...

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

... had done. They’d squeezed the victim’s testicles with a pair of pliers, beat him, burned him. Actually, I thought the judge’s sentence was lenient. Once a jailbird, always a jailbird.”. But there was another moment, on our second day together, when she slipped verbally, and said in an almost irritable way, “He [the victim] was going to die anyway, so.” and then she caught herself. I just looked at her. All her previous protestations that when arrested she’d had no idea Vigliarole was dead were clearly lies. During this interview with the psychologist, Donna Hylton lied and said she was nowhere near the man who died. Evidence disputes this. Once arrested, Hylton and her friends were put in a holding pen. “I told [the police] these people were going to kill my daughter, we had to find my daughter. I was having nightmares and couldn’t sleep. And it was in all the papers, and people would point to me and say. “There she is,’ like I ...

Drug War's Collateral Lifers Seek Freedom

... like The Council and the CAN DO Foundation are not only working on just prison and sentencing reform and re-entry, but are actively trying to get women out of prison. Because so many of the women. like Riley’s mother, are serving long sentences for crimes committed by relatives or romantic partners. The audience heard from Alice Johnson, who is serving a life sentence 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 ...

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

... 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 their dues and learned from it. Now they deserve some mercy, and it’s time for America’s politicians to step up to the plate. You can follow Keri on Twitter ...

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

... [their] communities.]" These women, all from completely different walks of life, were equally inspiring, and highlighted different voices that are not necessarily heard often. E. R. Pulgar© 2016. The most poignant part of the evening came in the form of a former inmate, who spoke after a discussion of mass incarceration and women took place. The context of the discussion fresh in everyone's mind—the particularly chilling statistic of 75% of incarcerated women being mothers was highlighted—only further brought home her statement about supporting her daughter as someone with former inmate status: "I don't have a lot of money, I can't give her the world, but I am her world.". At the end of the talk, Steinem rose to rousing applause. "We've broken down these prison walls, haven't we?" She smiled. "It's fan-fucking-tastic, what's happening here." Steinem encouraged everyone to look to the future, and ...