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Women have become a large part of the penal system. There are women of all ages and races. Mothers, daughters, sisters, wives even grandmothers. Most come from broken homes where incest, physical and emotional abuse, rape, alcoholism and drug use, prostitution, theft and the overall exploitation of life are an everyday way of living. To know something different is out of the ordinary, it isn't real life. Many women don't know and have a hard time with compassion as the social and economical dysfunction they've endured and still continue to have been their existence from the very beginning of what they knew as life.

There are many habitual offenders who continue to hold onto the state issued inmate number they received years ago as they cannot get rid of it. What does this mean? It means many women come back into prison just as quickly as they are released because they cannot be successful in completing their parole. When you are not successful in completing parole, you continue to hold onto the state number you are assigned and known by in prison as there is no need to issue you a new number because you have not been out long enough to get out the penal system database. Many become so familiar to the system that the correctional officers tell you on the way out they'll see you soon. With prison being set-up on a level of comfortableness, several don't want to come back but don't mind.

For most it is not that they don't want to stay out of the system, they have not learned or identified how. The overall majority go right back into the crime infested area that got them into prison. Many don't have families in tact with strong bonds or spiritual backgrounds where there can be intercession for them. There is fear, merciless limitations, inadequacies and the pressures of society and daily survival that they are faced with before they even reach their release date. Once released there is the overall lack of rehabilitation that sends the majority of women right back. Many want help. Many want to turn their lives around, but many don't know how and can't find the tools and/or resources to show them.

TIME ON THE INSIDE takes readers vividly into the walls of Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) the largest women's prison in the United States with a stop through Sybil Brand Institute (SBI) formerly the largest women's jail in California where conditions at this jail were not fit for a rodent. There are many struggles and challenges faced daily behind the walls. Conditions for the most part are abusive, violent and even deadly.

This book is an extraordinary view and look into the many areas that plague women, the problems within the system and the lack of rehabilitation which continuously warehouses criminals. It will bring insight, knowledge, laughter, tears and a much needed awareness and compassion into the social and economical barriers which many women face that ultimately lead them into a life of crime and into the penal system.