A review by alisonrose711
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons by Robin Levi, Ayelet Waldman

4.0

This book broke my heart a thousand times. The absolute atrocities and cruelties and just total lack of respect, agency, dignity given to women in the prison system...it's just so disheartening and awful. The abuse inflicted on them by those in power is sickening, and I don't care what someone has done to be put in prison, they do not deserve what many of these women experienced. I'm grateful to the editors of this book for getting these stories out there, for letting these women speak their truths and their lived experiences. I feel like this ought to be added to school curricula and given to every damn "tough on crime" politician. If only...