![]() Sentenced to two years incarceration, Blakinger documented everyday experiences at the aforementioned correctional facilities while getting sober and learning how broken the system was from witnessing it firsthand, joking all the while with cellmates about calling it “IV League” - though that didn’t make the cut. ![]() Saying in the book that she doesn’t think she fully understands how damaging prison was even now, she acknowledges that her privileges - being a white woman, an Ivy League student with a fairly minor sentence - affected her overall incarceration experience. ![]() If you’re like me, you probably haven’t had a first-hand experience in a jail, let alone a state prison. ![]()
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