![]() ![]() ![]() Their stories raise issues of friendship and family, mental illness, the odd cliques and codes of behavior, the role of religion, the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailor, and the almost complete lack of guidance for life after prison.Ĭompelling, moving, and often hilarious, Orange is the New Black sheds a unique light on life inside a women’s prison, by a Smith College graduate who did the crime and did the time. ![]() Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, Piper was forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking.įollowing a plea deal for her 10-year-old crime, Piper spent a year in the infamous women’s correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, which she found to be no “Club Fed.” In Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, Piper takes readers into B-Dorm, a community of colorful, eccentric, vividly drawn women. bestseller Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Womens Prison IG: PiperKerman California, USA Joined November 2006 7,134 Following 109. When federal agents knocked on her door with an indictment in hand, Piper Kerman barely resembled the reckless young woman she was shortly after graduating Smith College. Her memoir, Orange Is The New Black: My Year In A Womens Prison, recounts her exotic. ![]() She wrote a memoir, Orange Is the New Black, and. Piper Kerman was bored with her middle class life so she joined a group of artists-turned-drug smugglers. Orange Is The New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison In 2004, Piper Kerman, who had pleaded guilty to money laundering violations, entered federal prison. ![]()
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