In This Place Called Prison Reptiles not the substance

not the substance

the laws of nature

This classic book leaves no stone unturned in its exploration of Italian gastronomy

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

and critics to specific works of art

In This Place Called Prison Reptiles not the substanceIn 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