Mackenzie Shirilla landed a new job behind bars after she complained about being bored while serving her prison sentence.
Shirilla, 21, is now working as a food service worker at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, prison’s spokesperson Tara Nickle confirmed to TMZ on Thursday, June 11.
While it’s not currently known how much she’s making for the job, Nickle told the outlet that inmates can make up to $24 per month.
Shirilla’s new job was revealed nearly two weeks after a phone call from prison was released on June 1, in which she complained to her mother, Natalie Shirilla, about all of the free time she’s had in prison.
According to the call obtained by TMZ, Mackenzie said she was frustrated that she didn’t have access to her commissary. The in-facility store allows incarcerated individuals to buy various items such as snacks, hygiene products and more.
“How am I going to make this one book stretch?” Mackenzie asked, adding that she did not want to read “the same book over and over again.”
Also during the call, Mackenzie complained about how slow the day moved for her. “Like it’s only 3:30, how is it only 3:30?” she asked. “For real I did not even know it was 3:30 I thought it was like 5. It’s 3:30.”
“Like literally there is nothing for me to do in my room, nothing,” she added.
Mackenzie is serving time after she was convicted of 12 felony charges, including murder, following a 2022 car crash when she drove 100 mph into a brick wall. The collision killed her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and friend Davion Flanagan, and she was left with severe injuries.
After an investigation was launched into the crash, authorities determined that Mackenzie had purposefully crashed the vehicle and intentionally killed Russo, 20, and Flanagan, 19.
She was sentenced to two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life in prison and will not be eligible for parole until October 2037.
Mackenzie has maintained her innocence and insisted she did not mean to kill Russo or Flanagan.
Her case has recently regained attention after it was the subject of the May Netflix documentary The Crash, in which she appeared from prison and expressed her remorse for the car crash.
However, her former inmate Mary Katherine “Kat” Crowder claimed that Mackenzie didn’t show remorse behind bars and instead took on a mean girl persona.
“When Mackenzie first walked out in the documentary, my jaw dropped because that was not the person that I saw in prison when I was with her. She walked around in a very light demeanor,” Crowder told NewsNation. “It was never this dark, smug, tough girl act that was in this video trying to portray some sort of remorse.”
