The Other Side of Prison (TOSOP): The Role of Women Left Behind is a project of ABANTU for Development in collaboration with AMKA-Space for Women's Creativity. The project has documented experiences of women in the fight for the second liberation and also highlighted women's leadership roles in defending their rights and those of their children or their spouses. The project arose from the fact that men who experienced detention, imprisonment or exiles have had their experiences documented but no women left behind has had her experience documented. This is despite the fact that these women were then ostracized by the society and had to carry a burden on their own when they most needed support. The book has documented the experience of such women who became engaged with the state as it pursued destruction of the men they had arrested. It also highlights the difficulties these women an countered. The book documents the coping strategies that these women developed and ways in which they dealt with state officials. This brings to the core their political, diplomatic, communicative and negotiating skills.