![]() ![]() ![]() "They're an incentive to follow rules, think, and plan for re-entry - and how you're not going to end up back in prison. "Those connections are lifelines to the outside world, and they remind you that you have a life waiting for you," Kerman said. Piper has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, Cosmopolitan and other publications. ![]() The book has been adapted into an Emmy Award-winning original series for Netflix. It is important, she told, that incarcerated women stay close to their homes and families. Orange is the New Black is based on Piper Kerman’s 2010 memoir of the same name, written about the time she served at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Piper Kerman is the author of the memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, a 1 New York Times Bestseller. Kerman wrote a New York Times op-ed earlier this week criticizing the Board of Prisons plans to transfer the female prisoners incarcerated at the Danbury facility to Alabama. Piper Kerman is the author of the book that has become a Netflix hit and she has become a campaigner for prison reform since her release from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury in 2005. 16, 2013 — - The author of the prison memoir "Orange Is the New Black" is relieved that federal prison officials have halted plans to move 1,000 female inmates from Connecticut to a prison far from their families in Alabama, but questions the "rationale" for wanting to send the women far from their homes in the first place. ![]()
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