In This Place Called Prison: Women's Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment

by Rachel Ellis

In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women's prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their stories, Ellis shows how women draw on religion to navigate lived experiences of carceral control. A trenchant study of religion colliding and colluding with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520384547
• ISBN13: 9780520384545
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"