Chain fences, barbed wire and concrete walls. That's what you see when you look at Perryville Prison in Goodyear, Ariz.
It's also the next home of convicted killer, Jodi Arias.
"She's very naïve. She doesn't know what's going to happen inside," said Sue Ellen Allen, a former Perryville inmate.
Allen doesn't look like your typical felon. But, at the age of 57, a conviction for securities fraud sent the former business owner to Perryville for seven years.
Allen later wrote a book about her experience titled "The Slumber Party from Hell."
"Whether she goes to death row or life in prison, she's going to be on Lumley and it's going to be hell," Allen said.
Lumley is the maximum security yard at the women's prison. There, inmates spend 23 hours a day locked inside their cells.
While lifers can eventually earn some privileges, if Arias is sent to death row, most of her daily interaction will involve food being slipped through a slot.
As for as her high profile status, Allen said it can go a few different ways.
"There will be some groupies, probably not many, but there will be some," she said. "There will be some that want to put her in her place. There will be staff that wants to put her in her place."
Allen said the only thing that got her through was knowing one day she'd be able to walk out. Arias most likely won't have that luxury.
"There's always that hope in front of you. But for her and women in for life, there isn't any. That's totally a different living death," she said.
While Allen's time in prison was horrific in many ways, she said she also met a lot of amazing, inspirational women inside. One was her cellmate, Gina Panetta, who died from leukemia while serving a three year sentence.
After being released in 2006, Allen started Gina's Team, a non-profit that advocates for education and self-sufficiency for women in prison.
