The subsequent Peabody Award-winning television series it inspired ran from 2013 to 2019, giving millions of people a look at the issues surrounding the female prison population. It explores friendships and family, mental illness, the relationships between prisoners and those who watch over them, and the difficulty of adjusting to life after prison with little help and guidance from society. The autobiographical volume is at times funny, heartbreaking and emotional. Kerman’s New York Times bestseller is a memoir of her experiences in a federal prison, where she served time for a crime she committed a decade earlier while briefly involved with the drug trade. Kerman is social justice advocate, author and onetime inmate Johnson Criminology and Criminal Justice Lecture Series. 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 tickets for her presentation are now available. Octo‘Orange Is the New Black’ author Piper Kerman will speak at SIUĬARBONDALE, Ill.
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