A review by jenmangler
Orange Is the New Black: My Year In a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman

3.0

I'm so glad I'm in a book club, because I never would have read this book if it hadn't been on our list and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven't really given much thought to how incarceration affects people. I got so frustrated reading this book because it seems like all the prison/justice system does is make things harder for people to make positive changes in their lives. So yeah, we can punish. But does that make things better? What crimes are we punishing severely, and why? This book gave me a lot to think about.