At this point, you've probably already finished your "Orange is the New Black" season three binge-watch -- and that's okay. It's totally natural.

It's also totally natural for most of us, the blissfully uninformed when it comes to the sh-tty prison industrial complex, to wonder which "OITNB" plot lines stayed close to reality and which (the swim in the lake, perhaps?) strayed from real life for the sake of TV magic.

To get to the bottom of this, MTV News hopped on the phone with the inspiring Maya Schenwar, whose book "Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better" came to life after she sat down with numerous real-life prisoners -- including her own sister. Find out what Schenwar had to say about "OITNB" season three below!

FACT: Private prisons can make life more difficult.

"Basically, private prisons are really crappy, and generally crappier than public prisons. I think that that part was realistic just because there is a profit motive, and so cost savings always become the thing that is prioritized. That’s [also] true for public prisons, but for private prisons, the profit motive is at the forefront.

"The thing... that bothered me about it and that’s not totally realistic is that, because the privatization was such a dramatic transition, it kind of valorized the public prison and made it seem like things were so great comparatively, and everyone’s heart was really in it. It just turned into this fantasizing, to the extent where I was like, 'oh, the public prison, I’m so sad to see it go.' Most prisoners in the United States are in state prisons, but private prisons are only less than seven percent of state prisons. At the federal prisons, I think it’s still less than twenty percent."

FACT: Inmates can do "slave labor" for private corporations.

"That’s totally a thing... there was a big controversy over prison labor and lingerie. The 'Orange is the New Black' version of this was modeled on Victoria's Secret using prison labor, which was really prevalent [at that time]. There were a few exposes about it... some of the companies we wouldn’t expect to make use of prison labor, like Starbucks, I think.

"You know, it’s cheaper. They hire subcontractors. And so it was never... I don’t think extremely widespread, but I do think the phenomenon is not unrealistic and definitely happens through all kinds of companies in different countries.

"I do think that [the show] gave the impression that prison labor, making stuff for outside the prison, was something that particularly happens in private prisons... but really that’s something that has happened at public prisons for a really long time. In the south for example, after slavery ended and black people in the south started being enslaved basically by being incarcerated, they were picking cotton at prisons... they still are doing that. Prison labor provides services at all different kinds of prisons for the public."

FICTION: Inmates can start a panty-selling empire.

"I don’t really know if I’m in a position to evaluate the panty market, but I do know that the smuggling is totally realistic in that guards do participate in that kind of thing on a regular basis... I felt like the level to which Piper was able to immediately develop a business and have it be on the down low was a little unrealistic, just because there is so much surveillance. In prison, there’s like a constant presence of being monitored.... there are strip searches all the time. Why, during the strip searches, were people not feeling that they’re wearing fancy underwear? That’s kind of interesting. You know what I mean."

FICTION: Inmate and correctional officer relationships are romantic.

"I gotta say -- some of this relationship stuff between guards and prisoners to me... I can’t help liking [Daya] and she’s a good actress, but it’s disturbing, because the vast majority of the time if you have a situation with a guard and prisoner, it’s sexual violence.

"Technically under the law it’s always rape between a guard and a prisoner. They get that across, but... when they really go into detail about sexual contact, it’s women getting a crush [on an officer]. Sexual violence is endemic in our system. It’s something you talk to women in prison about, and they’re like, 'yeah, this is a constant in my life,' and they’re not speaking out because they're under pressure not to.

"Pennsatucky’s situation was more realistic in the fact that he ended up taking advantage of her... the power relation, definitely, parts of that were an effective portrayal."

FACT: Transgender inmates are sent to solitary to avoid hate crimes.

"Absolutely. That’s totally realistic. I definitely communicated with a number of people in prison, particularly trans women -- usually trans women are in men’s prison, but also trans men in women’s prison -- who get sent to solitary because they’re being told it’s for their own protection.

"Actually, I communicated with a woman in a prison in Oklahoma, a trans woman, and she’s been in solitary for the majority of her stay in prison because they say, you know, it’s for your own protection. She certainly doesn’t want to be there. It really aggravated her that they’re doing this, and she’s done everything she can to get out. But if somebody is telling you, 'no, this is for your protection,' they have that authority to decide what you need. And of course, no one wants to be in solitary for their protection. It’s just, you know, it’s torture."

FICTION: Inmates can hang out in donut shops.

"I think that, like a lot of events in 'Orange is the New Black,' the freedom with which these women were allowed to do things -- like some guards allowed they should be able to do -- was a little over the top. Like the fact that [Pennsatucky]'s going to this donut shop and driving around and going to the lake and having this courtship ritual... to me, it’s just one of the aspects of the show that kind of makes it seem like summer camp."

FACT: Guards smuggle drugs.

"I know people who have gotten drugs while they’re in prison fairly easily, and it’s almost always a situation where guards are involved. Because when they’re checking -- they look carefully for drugs coming in through visitors. When you visit a prison, they search you really thoroughly and everything, and visits are heavily monitored. Guards are often under less surveillance.

"There has been a perception of prison guards that they’re very 'law and order,' and that there are only a couple bad apples who engage in [smuggling]. That’s not true. Like, why does someone be a prison guard? There are lots of different reasons. I think that the assumption that someone who is a prison guard wouldn’t do that is definitely off base. It’s more realistic that things would be able to get in through guards than it is that someone would have the autonomy to conduct this pretty sophisticated business without a level of surveillance that would crack that down."

FICTION: Inmates can go for a swim without being noticed.

"I thought that was pretty hilarious... with private prisons, I don’t think the biggest issue is guard negligence. Like, guards being too lax is not the problem. Prison escapes are really, really rare, and when they happen they’re a result of very extraordinary circumstances.

"But the thing that was realistic was the fact that once [Angie] was released, they did absolutely nothing for her. When she got out, she got some money and got on the bus and was like, you know, buying a snack, and then they’re just like 'all right, you’re on your own.' That’s totally true. That’s how it goes. It’s kind of amazing when you think about it, what tight and constant control you’re under when you’re in prison, and then as soon as you’re outside you completely get back to responsibility. They’re like, 'okay, you have to make it.' So of course, Angie is just sitting there kind of frozen, like, 'what am I supposed to do with myself?'