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This is tough to rate since the material present has since been adapted into a highly entertaining, addictive TV show. The book serves as an eye-opening memoir of Kerman's time in prison, and her experiences shed much light on the inner workings of the prison system and its inconsistent bureaucracy. As a fan of the TV adaptation, it was fun to stumble across bits and pieces of the show's characters here through reading about the real inmates. I wish that there had been a chapter included at the
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I liked it, although it is quite different from the show. I appreciate both, and can definitely see how the book is a jumping off point for the show. My favorite part of the book was the examination of our prison system and the humanizing look at the people within it.
This was OK. I think my main problem was that I didn't much like Piper. The author was an accomplice in a drug trafficking for a short while as a college student/recent grad - ten years after doing this, she is charged and sentenced to 15 months in prison. She spent the bulk of her time at Danbury in Connecticut (but not in the maximum security section). A true story but it is a bit cliched: "A well-educated, upper class white woman goes to prison and builds strong bonds with her fellow inmates,
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2.5 stars
Sep 07, 2013
Angela
marked it as to-read
