"...deals with everything from strip searches to meals to relationships
with other inmates to pre-release planning. ...With the growing criminalization of non-violent dissent, more and more people
will end up in prison. Activists, and specifically female activists in the US, should read this book."
—Brian Burch, Resources for Radicals.
"This book is not a political diatribe, or a chronicle of abuses, but rather a manual of advice for others facing such detention.
So don't expect James Bond here, but if you have civil disobedience in mind, this can help prepare you for the consequences."
"A worthy addition to feminist prison literature...In the style of Thoreau or
Nawal el Saadawi, her presentation of experiences and justification for protests is a touch of grace for the
21st-century reader. A valuable memoir for church and college libraries and for book clubs and women's studies courses."
"An impressive tale, alternately lyrical and horrifying,
thoughtful and enraged, intensely personal yet engaged with all women."
—Marcianne Miller, Rapid River Magazine. Read more.
"..a gritty and highly readable personal account of captivity at the so-called Camp Cupcake.
Alderson, once a progressive institution
run and staffed by women who believed in rehabilitation, is now a cinder block wonderland of rancid peanut butter,
prowling male guards and price gouging at the Commissary."
"We all take part in it--if you pay your taxes, you're taking
part in this war. We all have a responsibility, as they determined
after Nuremberg, whether you're the lowest soldier or the highest
ranking general, or just a regular civilian, we all have
responsibility...to resist and refuse enabling and condoning this
criminal behavior."Lt. Ehren Watada
If any think that their influence would be lost [in prison], and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State,
that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more
eloquently and effectively [they] can combat injustice who [have] experienced a little in [their] own person. -Henry David Thoreau, "On Civil Disobedience"