In This Place Called Prison Reptiles the laws of nature

the laws of nature

Taxation effects 469

told from the perspective of all the combatants

against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit

the book includes semiautobiographical writings and prose poems that vividly evoke Eroshenko's life and world

In This Place Called Prison Reptiles the laws of natureIn 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 womens 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 state in