“Inside This Place, Not Of It is precisely the kind of book we need now… I will never forget these women, or this book.” Susan Straight, author of Take One Candle Light A Room
“I am passionately, ardently grateful for the existence of this book.” Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
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Edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi, Inside This Place reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their experiences inside ranging from forced sterilization and shackling during childbirth, to physical and sexual abuse by prison staff. Together, their testimonies illustrate the harrowing struggles for survival that women in prison must endure.
