Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Autobiography and the Problem with Resistance 1
5. Conversion and the Story of the us Prison 37
6. The Treatment Era 76
7. From the Treatment Era to the Monster Factory 125
8. Life Writing in the Contemporary Carceral State 164
9. “Love is Contraband in Hell” 198
10. “These Women, Like Myself” 227
11. Notes 243
12. Bibliography 269
13. Index 293
14. Books in the Life Writing Series 312