Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prison provides a chilling glimpse of the human rights abuses suffered by women in U.S. prisons. The book is essentially a set of edited interview transcripts, with each chapter providing a first-person account of a different currently or formerly incarcerated woman. What these narrators reveal about their […]
Author: Ashley Lucas
Ashley Lucas is an Assistant Professor of Dramatic Art and Producing Artistic Director of the Teatro Latina/o Series at UNC Chapel Hill. She is also the author of an interview-based play, Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass, which she has performed as a one-woman show throughout the U.S. and in Ireland and Canada. With women’s studies scholar Jodie Lawston, Lucas co-edited the book Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists (SUNY Press 2011) and writes for a blog by the same name (http://razorwirewomen.wordpress.com).