Leo Hylton, MS – cttjournal

Author name: Leo Hylton, MS

Leo Hylton, MS (https://www.linkedin.com/in/leo-hylton-ms-1a8540224/) is a recent Master’s graduate of George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. His education and work are based in trauma-informed, healing-centered Restorative Justice practices, and are focused on Social Justice Advocacy and Activism, visioning an abolitionist future. Toward that end, he is working as a Visiting Instructor at Colby College, co-teaching AY346 – Carcerality and Abolition. He is a lead facilitator of Maine State Prison’s Restorative Practices Steering Committee, serves on Colby College’s Restorative Practices Team, and provides consultation to RJ practitioners in the US and abroad. Leo is a core organizer of the Carter School Working Group on Forgiveness and Reconciliation, creating spaces of co-learning, growth, and trauma healing in the context of forgiveness and reconciliation. He is also a columnist for the publication Mainer, where he writes a monthly column to raise public consciousness around the existence and power of humanity in carceral spaces. Leo’s education, work, and research are informed by his experience as a currently incarcerated citizen in Maine State Prison. For more, read, “Trauma, Spirituality, and Healing: A Journey through the Lens of an Incarcerated Person”

Spirituality in Trauma and Trauma-Healing: An Incarcerated Person’s Narrative

Personal Perspectives / By Leo Hylton, MS

1. IntroductionThis article is a narrative-based paper written from the perspective of an incarcerated man who has experienced myriad and varied traumas over the course of his life. In childhood, he was subjected to physical, mental, and emotional abuse at the hands of his father, which led to repeated traumatic separations and spiritual confusion after …

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