“Orange Is The New Black” author Piper Kerman on why prison mail is important

“Those letters to the outside sort of served the same purpose as the book.”

While incarcerated, Piper Kerman used letters “to explain what I was experiencing and what I was witnessing to people who were on the outside, who maybe had never set foot in a prison or a jail.”

This clip comes from Inside Story. Our TV show, developed by formerly incarcerated people, examines the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system. See full episodes in our Inside Story playlist.

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[Falconer]

So, she IS as self serving and narcissistic as the character "Piper". Good to know. I may have purchased the book; now, if I do, Ill male sure it's free.

[beccalife]

I did not know Orange is the New Black is a book