As to daily life,

Surviving in prison meant accepting what she called "enforced idleness," with one monotonous day sliding into the next. The noise is ceaseless, the facility packed to twice its intended capacity. "We live on top of each other," she said. Anything private "has to be done inside your head."

The interviewer adds:

She laments the absence of anything meaningful to do. She craves privacy. And she tiptoes nervously through each day while awaiting that moment in 2009 when she'll go home.... To be famous is no advantage. The savviest convicts strive to be unremarkable, undeserving of concern. Olson does not discuss her past, and few women living alongside her in this San Joaquin Valley town are aware of it. There is, inmates say, an unwritten rule behind bars: You do not ask an incarcerated sister what she has done.

....Amid the crowd, Olson's posture is nonthreatening, a semi-slouch. Her expression is blank. To show emotion is to attract unwanted attention -- or, worse, risk causing offense. Anonymity is best.....She laments the absence of anything meaningful to do....

Olson's husband and daughters visit from Minnesota about every six weeks. Other than that, like every other prisoner, she's doing her time and hoping she doesn't get sick since prison health treatment is so bad. Her sentence is up in 2009.