Piper Kerman is the author of the memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (Spiegel & Grau). A vice president of a Washington, D.C.–based communications firm that works with foundations and nonprofits and a graduate of Smith College, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

Lohan may not be serving her whole sentence, but she won't get off lightly. Writer Piper Kerman, who served 11 months, on what the actress can expect, from the strip search to prisoners' secret lines of communication.