When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she’d been when she’d committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her. Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, she was suddenly forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking.
My Review:
This book should have been really great. An educated woman who ended up in a woman's prison, but it was just OK for me.
Maybe it was because Kerman had a fairly easy time of it or maybe there just wasn't enough drama for me.
It did shine a lot of light on the plight of women in prison. The lack of educational opportunities and the absence of ways to reform themselves is really astonishing. I understand that prisoners are there to be punished, but if we don't teach them ways to succeed on the outside the cycle will never be broken.
All in all I thought this was worth reading.
I agree that we need to do more than just put people in prison and then expect them to go on with "life as usual" when they are released. I will have to look for this book next time I visit the library! :)
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