how much of the TV show Orange is the New Black is like what actually happened? From a Fresh Air interview with Kerman this past August: The Netflix series is an adaptation, and there are tremendous liberties. Kerman now is as a communication consultant for non-profits and "works on a range of issues including criminal justice reform." 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. Following 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. 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.
It's free and open to the public.įrom the blurbage for Kerman's memoir: 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. And that Piper - as opposed to Piper Chapman, the actual Piper - is scheduled to be at Skidmore November 12 for a talk. As you might know, Orange is the New Black - the popular Netflix series - is based on a memoir of the same title by Piper Kerman.
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