CONTENTS

Foreword by Michelle Alexander

Prologue

PART I: SUE

    1. Now What?

    2. Land of Opportunity

    3. Daddy’s Girl

    4. Hit the Road

    5. The Sacrifice

    6. Things You Don’t Talk About

    7. The Life

    8. From the Skillet to the Frying Pan

    9. No Justice, No Peace

    10. A New Drug

    11. Incarceration Nation

    12. Collateral Damage

    13. The Revolving Door

    14. The Vicious Cycle

    15. Hurt People

    16. A Tale of Two Systems

    17. A Way Out

    18. Finding Purpose

PART II: MS. BURTON

    19. A New Way of Life

    20. The Wall of No

    21. Who’s Profiting from Our Pain?

    22. Women and Prison

    23. A Kindred Spirit

    24. Taking Food off the Table

    25. Broke Leg House

    26. From Trash to Treasure

    27. All of Us or None

    28. Treating the Symptoms and the Disease

    29. The Meaning of Life

    30. The Women from Orange County

    31. Being Beholden

    32. Living an Impossible Life

    33. The House That Discrimination Built

    34. Women Organizing for Justice and Opportunity

    35. What Would Ms. Sybil Brand Think?

    36. Without Representation

    37. Prop 47

    38. The Movement

    39. The Arc Bends Toward Justice

Acknowledgments

Further Reading

Suggested Resources

Notes