Erica Marlowe, if there ever was an unlikely prisoner in a long term facility like Mirkwater it was she. Married, upper middle class , country club member, 15 year school teacher living the good lfe, now suddenly a convicted felon lost it all and now in an environment so unfamiliar and terrifying that she is afraid to sleep.<br/>Having been in “protective custody” for the first two weeks of her transfer into Mirkwater, this is only her second day in general population. Being convicted as a “child molester”, makes her vulnerable to physical attacks by other prisoners who quite often consider those crimes as “unacceptable “ within the prisoner hierarchy. During her stay in the county lockup she was attacked twice, beaten badly and gang raped. After her adjustment time in isolation, the administration felt it safe enough for her In the C wing, with it’s majority of “mature“ inmates, to move her.<br/>She sits silently on her bunk, back against the wall, feet up with her arms wrapped around her knees just barely lifting her head to acknowledge the arrival of the new inmate.