The New Black

Piper Kerman is a Caucasian woman who is well educated, and of a comfortable socioeconomic class. Piper wrote the book Orange is the New Black to expose the injustices of the justice system through her personal account of her sentence in federal prison. Piper has written about all of her experiences starting from graduating college to her time spent in prison, to her release, and writes her account to exploit the criminal justice system and the struggles women face during their time of incarceration

Anyone who has a Netflix account (and also many who don’t) are aware of the hit original, “Orange is the New Black.” This show, often racy and brutal in its’ depictions, bring up many questions about the ethics of our incarceration policy and how America treats its’ criminals. Overcrowding, population disparity, and modern day slavery are just some of the problems America’s many inmates face. America, like Australia, began as a penal colony. England had too many prisoners to house, so they shipped

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In Orange is the New Black there is a lot of representation of queer characters. Most of the main characters are queer or have been in some sort of relationship. Basically in every episode there is some form of queer relationship. The character that I am going to be focusing on is Piper Chapman. She is one of the main characters and most of the plot lines are based around her. At the beginning of the series, Piper is in a heterosexual relationship with Larry who has no idea about her past relationships

Piper Kerman is the author of the high prestige book “Orange is the New Black.” The book has been adapted by Jenji Kohan into the original web television series Netflix, as an American comedy-drama. The series focus on Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a woman in her mid-thirties who lives in New York and was sentenced to fifteen months in Litchfield Correctional Facility, women's federal prison. Piper Chapman, has been convicted of a decade old crime of transporting money to her drug-dealing girlfriend

day that came to be known as "Black Thursday" the prices on the stock market crashed. Investors were made nervous by the rising interest rates, and suddenly sold their shares causing prices to drop dramatically. On the following Tuesday, October 29, prices sank even further. 16 million shares were dumped on the market as investors grew panicked. This was known as the stock market crash of 1929, which was one of the many causes of the start of the Great Depression. The New Deal, enacted by President

Society Outsiders Orange is the New Black has become a smash hit Netflix original series and admittedly, I am one of those huge fans. I can easily recall the many summer nights I sat positioned on the edge of my couch with a Drumstick ice cream cone clutched in my right hand, a Roku remote fixed in my left hand, and my eyes plastered to the TV screen. The two main characters, Alex and Piper, were madly in love until had become tired of being in a relationship with Alex and Piper settled down as

Laverne Cox, actress of Orange Is the New Black was bullied and harassed for appearing feminine while growing up. She is now a public leader in the trans community and fights for equal rights. She highly believes that people should be able to express their gender in a way that is different, and

Officers, those who are there to protect them and maintain a controlled environment. Those are the cases that are hardly reported or heard about. In August 26, 2016 a Correctional Officer was charged with raping an inmate from Rikers Island Prison in New York. Officer Jose Cosme of age thirty six had

I was nervous before reading Orange is the New Black because I have never read a book where the setting is prison showcasing the bleak life of an inmate. The reason I decided to read this book is because I have never watched the TV-series that everyone is obsessed with, and I wanted to learn the true story behind the famous show before I decided to watch or not watch the series. The show based on a book is written by an actual convict, about her actual time in prison. Piper Kerman is a drug smuggler