The book Orange Is The New Black is a real story about Piper Kerman’s young adult life, including the experiences she encountered, illegal activities she engaged in and her incarceration as a result of the crimes she committed. As a 24 year old woman, post graduation working as a waitress in Northampton, Kerman was on the look out for adventure. She began a lesbian relationship with Nora Jansen, a well-paid drug dealer trained in Europe who was capable of smuggling drugs into the country. Eventually, Kerman became another asset for Nora’s business. As a result, unhappiness arose and she decides to breakup with Nora and move to San Francisco. She became a producer, started a new relationship with a guy named Larry and they moved together to
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I used to think conviction happened as soon as possible, especially in federal cases that included illegal acts like drug trafficking such as the one Piper was accused of. I was shocked to see that they took almost six years to actually convict her; I believe it is a large amount of time for an individual to live in uncertainty, since waiting so long for a trial can paralyze one’s whole life plan. This loss of time is a factor that should be taken into consideration by the criminal justice system, because if the person ends up being innocent, he/she could basically waste years of their lives for no valuable reason. In terms of the incarceration experience, I thought the prison system would offer better services like a well-structured GED program so that the women could developed knowledge and hope for a future career or higher education. I was surprised when Piper had to get another job as an electrician, since the GED program was temporarily shut down because of the lack of maintenance of classrooms and textbooks. An aspect of incarceration I learned is police officer’s mistreatment to inmates. From what I knew I thought this was something that happened from time to time, however being able to experience it first hand with Piper’s experience with more than one officer was incredible. It concerned me, the fact that correctional officers like Richards would use their time as guards to make the lives of these women worst than they already were. Lastly, when the GED program re-opened it was unfortunate and frustrating to see the level of disinterest from part of the head of education. His only goal was to gain an eight hour salary, while he had no enthusiasm or initiative whatsoever to actually teach the
I used to think conviction happened as soon as possible, especially in federal cases that included illegal acts like drug trafficking such as the one Piper was accused of. I was shocked to see that they took almost six years to actually convict her; I believe it is a large amount of time for an individual to live in uncertainty, since waiting so long for a trial can paralyze one’s whole life plan. This loss of time is a factor that should be taken into consideration by the criminal justice system, because if the person ends up being innocent, he/she could basically waste years of their lives for no valuable reason. In terms of the incarceration experience, I thought the prison system would offer better services like a well-structured GED program so that the women could developed knowledge and hope for a future career or higher education. I was surprised when Piper had to get another job as an electrician, since the GED program was temporarily shut down because of the lack of maintenance of classrooms and textbooks. An aspect of incarceration I learned is police officer’s mistreatment to inmates. From what I knew I thought this was something that happened from time to time, however being able to experience it first hand with Piper’s experience with more than one officer was incredible. It concerned me, the fact that correctional officers like Richards would use their time as guards to make the lives of these women worst than they already were. Lastly, when the GED program re-opened it was unfortunate and frustrating to see the level of disinterest from part of the head of education. His only goal was to gain an eight hour salary, while he had no enthusiasm or initiative whatsoever to actually teach the