Orange is the new black
Subtitle: my year in a women's prison
By: Piper Kerman
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780385523394
Subjects: Federal Correctional Institution (Danbury, Conn.); Women prisoners; Reformatories for women
Other titles: My year in a women's prison
Description: When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she'd been when she committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her. Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, she was suddenly forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking. Kerman spent thirteen months in prison, eleven of them at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where she met a surprising and varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances. Kerman tells the story of those long months locked up in a place with its own codes of behavior and arbitrary hierarchies, where a practical joke is as common as an unprovoked fight, and where the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailer is constantly and unpredictably recalibrated.