Voices You don’t fail until you quit… Toby November 1, 2020 April 18, 2021 This week’s Butterfly is Nikki. Born less than 3 pounds to a drug addict, Nikki was the middle of three children. Her family moved often, from state to state, including several stays in battered women’s shelters.… Read the rest
Voices Surround yourself with people who will lift you up… Toby November 1, 2020 April 18, 2021 With three young children from different fathers, Crystal was desperately overwhelmed. She disciplined the same way she had learned from her mother – with a paddle.… Read the rest
Voices You’re worthy… Toby November 1, 2020 April 18, 2021 When Casandra was 12 years old, her mother left, leaving 5 daughters behind. Casandra’s stepdad couldn’t take care of them and sent Casandra to live with her real father with whom she had no relationship. … Read the rest
Voices Have faith in yourself… Toby November 1, 2020 April 18, 2021 She was there; she watched the buyer handing over the money, the very same money she snatched from her husband’s hand, saying with disregard, “I’m going shopping.” … Read the rest
Voices Look to God for your strength… Toby November 1, 2020 April 18, 2021 Janessa has a lot in common with most prison women. Starting in her teens, men abused her. She turned to booze and pot to deaden the pain.… Read the rest
Voices Learn to build a new life… Toby October 31, 2020 April 18, 2021 Lauren began her story by taking responsibility for her circumstances, but I knew right away, unfortunately, that Lauren was not and should not have been responsible for the start she was awarded.… Read the rest
Voices Get up and fight another day… Toby October 31, 2020 April 18, 2021 Pain chased Yvonne from her own twisted childhood. We pick up her story upon her second marriage where mental and physical abuse was commonplace. She and her groom drank heavily before the wedding… and after it.… Read the rest
Voices The decision you make today changes every decision you make… Toby October 31, 2020 April 18, 2021 With Shelena’s parents, it’s no wonder she used meth at twelve years old. Shelena went on to shoot meth for 14 ½ years. Starting at twenty years old, prison became a revolving door for the next decade or more.… Read the rest
Podcasts, Interviews & Articles The Atlantic article Toby September 20, 2020 September 20, 2020 This is Criminal podcast was critical to the visibility of Unleashed. Michael Mooney contacted me briefly last September, then again in February. The Atlantic wanted my story.… Read the rest
Podcasts, Interviews & Articles toby dorr: love & a prison break Toby May 14, 2020 February 26, 2021 Writer and public speaker Toby Dorr shares her harrowing story: falling in love with prison inmate John Manard and helping him escape, their experience on the run and how her life has been thoroughly transformed by these events.… Read the rest
