Toby Dorr dared the unthinkable. She broke a convicted murderer out of Lansing Correctional Facility. Since completing her time in Federal Prison, she has achieved two master’s degrees and rebuilt a broken life.
Featured in the Wall Street Journal, 20/20, Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, Inside Edition (3 different times), The Atlantic, and Dateline, she is a regular guest on podcasts, including the nationally-ranked podcast, Criminal. A screenplay of her story is in the works and the Lifetime movie based on her story, Jailbreak Lovers, was released in July of 2022.
Toby created The Unleashed Series, workbooks which guide women through programs to escape what confines them.
Her podcast, Fierce Conversations with Toby, provides an opportunity for those who are making a difference in the world to share their stories with others.
Toby Dorr outside the Bureau of Prisons office in Washington DC.
In her memoir, Living with Conviction, Toby takes readers through all the heart-pounding, tear-jerking, heartbreaking, eye-opening experiences that touch the most primal human need, the need to be significant. A fascinating prison tale, through the lens of love, inspires change.
You Are Not Your Worst Mistake: Poems from Prison was published in the fall of 2022, featuring poems from Toby’s two dozen prison journals.
Her story is a lesson in perspective. Instead of focusing on everything she lost, Toby made a conscious choice to use her twenty-seven months in prison as a period to reflect on her life, heal emotional wounds, plot a course for the future, and embrace the sisterhood of women she encountered behind bars.
Filled with drama, action, adventure, heartache, and redemption, Toby bears her soul and tells a story of heartbreak, courage, grace, and transformation.
Toby’s work is an inspirational invitation to fiercely face life and flourish!
She pushes others to move beyond the confines of their circumstances and live each moment with conviction, allowing its fullest, most beautiful potential to unfold.
We are so much more than our worst mistake. Embrace the hard parts of your life’s story. Break free from the prison in which you may find yourself confined.
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