While working at a local radio station as a record librarian, she was given air play to read teletype news on the Korean War, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and other events.
In her book, The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten, she tells how two of the women believed that they would "grow wings and become fairies," a belief that they obtained from Charles Manson.
She has co-hosted the radio show "Criminal Justice on Trial," taught with Dr. Rafael Guzman at Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California.
Her first book Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance was first published in 1993 through Press Gang and has been called "path breaking" because of its historical overview of draconian social control practices.
The film is partly based on Faith's book, The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten and portrays her work with the Manson women after the Tate–LaBianca murders.