A memoir by Elizabeth Mikotowicz
No Justice Just Us
She survived the men, the shelters that turned her away, and eight years inside. This is the account of everything the system was built to keep quiet.
About the book
A record of what happened, not a plea for sympathy
No Justice Just Us follows a young woman pushed out of public housing, beaten while pregnant, refused by a battered women's shelter because her injuries were too severe, and finally handed to a federal court alongside thirteen co-defendants.
Inside, she found what most people never see: unpaid labour sold at a profit, generational trauma repeating itself in the visiting room, and a system that had quietly written its own exemption from the laws against slavery.
- 01Domestic violence and the shelters that turn survivors away
- 02Prison labour, private contracts and who collects
- 03Getting sober, getting published, getting out
- 04Legislative reform work in the state of Maine
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Elizabeth Mikotowicz
Born in Quincy, Illinois and adopted at two weeks old by a couple in Brooklyn, Elizabeth grew up in Maine and reconnected with her biological family in her senior year of high school.
She has been out of federal prison for six years and sober for all of them. Her poetry has won contests and been published. She painted murals while incarcerated and now shows that work in her community. She has sat with Maine state representatives to get better bills on the table, and some of them passed.
"I am the artist who made these paintings during my own healing. I hope stepping into this work makes you feel as stunning as you are."
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Four minutes on why the book exists, who it is for, and what she wants changed.
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“Elizabeth lays bare the realities of domestic violence and an unforgiving prison system. Her journey from victim to advocate is nothing short of inspiring.
“A beacon for anyone who has suffered in silence. It asks all of us to confront what still goes on inside these institutions.
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