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Orange Is The New Black
My Year in a Women’s Prison
By Piper Kerman
(Spiegel & Grau; on sale April 6, 2010)
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. 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.
Piper Kerman is a vice president at a Washington, D.C.-based communications firm, Spitfire Strategies that works with foundations and nonprofits. A graduate of Smith College, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Larry Smith.
Piper served a little over a year for drug trafficking.
For more about Piper and Social Justice issues of prison, go to:
http://piperkerman.com/orange
Women Prison Association
For information about Women Imprisonment in Wisconsin, go to:
http://www.wpaonline.org/institute/hardhit/states/wi/wi.htm
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