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Podcast: Stranger Connections
Episode: Jill Kinney. bad girl camp; the puberty-infused version of 'orange is the new black'
Description: Imagine sitting on a log in the woods for nearly 5 hours as a consequence, then making your meal, cleaning it up and sleeping in the cold woods in a tent with 6 strangers. Chamber pots. Spam. Bugs. Jill Kinney is an author who has a soon-to-be-released memoir of her time at what she calls "Bad Girl Camp". A family intervention at age 14 lead to her being thrust into a Texas tent city for the bad girls. Jill was from middle-class suburbia and suddenly thrust into a desolate wooded purgatory.... and back. How long could you survive that...