 When Violet is released early from prison, she doesn't even have a chance to say goodbye to the other women in her cell block, let alone Harriet. She can't even go back to her cell for her books. She is marched out and released. Her older sister, Vicki, meets her in the parking lot. Vicki says that she has set Violet up in an apartment in Portland, clothes in the closet, food in the fridge, and utilities covered for a year. Violet can't come home, and Vicki doesn't want to have anything to do with her little sister.