The fact that "there are over 90,000 prisoners locked up for drug offenses, compared with 40,000 for nonviolent crime" costing "at least $30,000 a year to incarcerate" and more for females, is expertly woven into Kerman's story, so the readers never feel they are reading statistics. Kerman balances facts and story line with aplomb. Kerman's unique observation point makes this book worth reading as a lawyer, and worth recommending to our clients, whether male or female. Finally, this book captures what it means to be a woman, with other women, in prison. It documents a system that locks women up for long periods of time only to release them back into a world they are less capable of navigating than when they entered. The author describes by example our meaningless system of incarceration and utter failure at rehabilitation. Orange Is the New Black is also a naked commentary on how women are treated in the federal system and how they behave, as women.
In the course of her tale, we learn her case dragged on for four years, she cooperated, had a good lawyer, and nearly 10 years after her criminal conduct, she was sentenced to serve a greatly reduced term of 15 months at Danbury, FCI, in Connecticut.įor some of us in private practice, Piper Kerman is our typical client: upper middle class, and new to the system. Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (Spiegel & Grau, New York, 2010), is the memoir of Piper Kerman, an upper middle-class Smith College graduate sent to prison for a drug conspiracy. Orange Is The New Black: InStyle To Inmate
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