 At her trial, Buddy insists that he and Valerie were secret lovers and that it was only at her urging that he committed the robbery.All the witnesses back his version that she was a willing participant, and she is duly convicted of the murder and sent to the San Marcos School for Girls.It is a big modern prison campus and has modern facilities like a hair salon and its own modern euphemistic language, including the rebranding of solitary confinement as "meditation".