01/23/2026
This is how new beginnings appear when justice gives you a new life!
Will you help support the cause for freedom?
The first thing Nicole Boynton did after walking out of prison wasn’t for herself.
She went to the store to buy cards for the women left behind.
After 23 years incarcerated, Nicole wanted other survivors of domestic violence to know they are not alone.
That there is still hope.
And now, because of a new Georgia law, there is a path forward.
Nicole was just 18 years old when she went to prison for stabbing her boyfriend during a fight inside their Cobb County home.
He died.
A judge later said years of documented abuse and violence against Nicole played a significant role in what happened… something Georgia law did not allow courts to consider at the time.
Now, a bipartisan law is changing that.
Nicole is the first person released under Georgia’s Survivor Justice Act, which allows judges to consider whether abuse was a significant contributing factor in a crime.
After serving 23 years, her life sentence was vacated and she was resentenced to time served.
Since her release, freedom has shown up in small, ordinary ways… watching cars pass by, feeling the sun on her face, breathing fresh air without bars.
She earned her GED, learned multiple trades while incarcerated, and already has a job waiting for her.
But she says her heart is still with the women she met inside… survivors who helped each other endure.
Nicole says she wants them to know what she now knows.
There is hope.
And this isn’t the end… it’s the beginning.
