Sweet Hell on Fire is the story of the traumatic and unsustainable year during which author Sara Lunsford worked in an all-male maximum security prison. What does it do to a person to scrape human remains off a prison floor? To experience aggressive sexual harassment every day? To be assaulted or raped, all in a day鈥檚 work? To know that your survival, along with that of your coworkers and prisoners, depends on whether or not you make a mistake or miss something 鈥� all in exchange for a paycheck that leaves you at or below the federal poverty level? This is a blunt, angry, and very important book.
