In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of Religious Life within an institution designed to punish.
A trenchant study of religion colliding and colluding with the state in an enduring tension between freedom and constraint, This book speaks to the quest for dignity and light against the backdrop of mass incarceration, state surveillance, and American inequality..
Through their stories, Ellis shows how women draw on religion to navigate lived experiences of carceral control. state women\'s prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers.
Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.
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In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of Religious Life within an institution designed to punish