Piper Kerman was looking for adventure when she graduated from college and she found it with a group of drug dealers/smugglers. She broke away from the group after not TOO long of time but her past caught up with her and she ended up in prison for her involvement. She spent a year in the "pen" and tells all about it here. For the most part, you get the idea that it isn't a pleasant place but she did end up liking and relating to a large portion of the population in the facility. Many of these convicts were also in for non-violent, drug related crimes, but few had access to good lawyers and supportive families.
This book includes a couple of heartwarming stories, a few sad stories but nothing too shocking. Kerman does rant here and there about being treated poorly in prison and it makes me wonder what she expected? Frankly, it seems like things could have been a whole lot worse. But it is easy to say that from my comfortable chair in the library.
Juxtaposed with the last prison memoir I read by Jeff Smith, it seems like the women have it easier than the men but this is nothing I want to test on my own.
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