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With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, C...

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Main Author: Kerman, Piper
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks, 2013, c2011.
Edition:Spiegel & Grau trade pbk. ed.
Series:Orange is the new black (Television program)
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Kerman, Piper.
Federal Correctional Institution (Danbury, Conn.)
Women prisoners > Connecticut > Danbury.
Reformatories for women > Connecticut > Danbury.
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Summary:With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424--one of the millions of people who disappear "down the rabbit hole" of the American penal system. From her first strip search to her final release, Kerman learns to navigate this strange world with its strictly enforced codes of behavior and arbitrary rules. She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with small tokens of generosity, hard words of wisdom, and simple acts of acceptance.
Item Description:"Now a Netflix original series"--Cover.
Includes a reader's guide and questions for discussion (p. [315]-327).
Physical Description:327 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:0812986180 (pbk.) :
9780812986181 (pbk.) :
Author Notes:Piper Kerman was born in Boston on September 28, 1969 and graduated from Smith College in 1992. Despite the advantages of her education and successful family background, she became involved in money laundering and drug trafficking, and would eventually serve 13 months of a 15-month sentence in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut.

Kerman's memoir about her time in prison, entitled Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison, was published in 2010. The book was adapted by Jenji Kohan into an Emmy and Peabody award-winning series on Netflix. She currently serves on the board of the Women's Prison Association and is a vocal advocate for Justice Reform.

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