Jailbirds in Flight: Everything You've Wanted to Know about Enlightenment in Prison but Were Afraid to Ask

Nicole Daedone entered federal custody on charges tied to her life's work-the teaching of Orgasmic Meditation-and found herself inside the "belly of the beast," the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. What she encounters there is a nation's shadow made visible, and within it, an unexpected field of grace.

Daedone meets women of immense courage and wit-OGs, hustlers, ministers, mystics-and even correctional officers whose quiet humanity breaks through the steel divide. Each holds a fra...