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Some private prison contracts require a 90% occupancy guarantee from government—if the beds aren’t full, the public pays penalties to the corporations. This profit motive creates obvious and ...

Orange Is The New Black, everyone’s new favorite show, is based on a true story. Officer Porn-stache, Big Red the prison cook, and Piper Chapman, the sweet, yuppie purveyor of artisan bath ...

Orange Is the New Black is an American comedy-drama web television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. Based on Piper Kerman's memoir, "Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison," ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – East Tennessee State University (ETSU) will host Piper Kerman, author of the bestselling memoir “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” at its Festival of ...

“I’m the product of two women’s institutions,” Piper Kerman ’92 told an audience in John M. Greene Hall on Thursday: Smith and federal prison. For the next two hours, Kerman, author of the memoir ...

SOUTH BEND − The keynote speaker for Dismas House of Indiana’s annual fund-raising dinner on Oct. 26 will be author, memoirist and social justice advocate Piper Kerman, whose book “Orange is the New ...

Piper Kerman, author of “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” the bestselling book that became a Netflix series, is coming to Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and free ...

Hari Sreenivasan posed your questions to author of "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison" Piper Kerman. After the broadcast segment, Hari posed your questions, submitted through ...

Taylor Schilling plays Piper in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, which is based on Piper Kerman's memoir of her year in prison. Piper Kerman was a 24-year-old Smith College graduate in 1993, when ...

The Orange Is The New Black author says that cooking behind bars allowed her to bond with fellow inmates, and points out where her experiences,... Piper Kerman: Recipes For Survival Piper Kerman: ...