As a 19-year-old, Donna Hylton made a terrible mistake – one that landed her a 25-year prison sentence. She joins us to talk about how spending time with other inmates helped her to come to terms with her abusive upbringing, which she writes about in “A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound” (Hachette Books).
A female inmate sits in a single cell in an acute unit of the mental heath unit at the Harris County Jail, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, in Houston. Eric Gay/AP Photo
