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Book review: ?Orange Is the New Black' by Piper Kerman. An educated, middle-class white woman ends up in federal prison for a drug offense.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Book review: ?Orange Is the New Black' by Piper Kerman An educated, middle-class white woman ends up in federal prison for a drug offense. By Diana Wagman April 25, 2010 Many of us have done something that could have gotten us arrested. The pot we smoked in college, the time we sold a couple of hits of ecstasy to a friend, even being in the room when a bigger drug deal went down could have sunk us. Had it gone just a little awry or had the wrong person shown up at the wrong time, we could be wearing that orange jumpsuit. Piper Kerman's wild youth came back and kicked her in the butt. She had followed her drug-dealing lover halfway across the world and been persuaded to ferry some money ? one time only ? through international customs. Five years later, the Feds appeared at her door and busted her...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 22, 2010 (boomark / email).