Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Piper Kerman's Orange Is the New Black

I found this book when I am looking up reading materials for the paralegal students.

Piper Kerman, a graduate from Smith College, involved with a wrong woman and participated in criminal activities in 1993. A decade later, in February 2004 she was convicted of drug smuggling and money laundry was sent to the prison for fifteen months. She was released after she served thirteen months at the minimum security correctional facility in Danbury Connecticut. The book, Orange Is the New Black, records Piper’s life in the prison. She was warned by her counselor NOT to make friend when she first arrived. Somehow she was able to make friends during her time in the prison. She learned fast of the rules and the frequent humiliating strip search and head counts.

-Another MUST read book on my list.

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