Book Review: Orange Is The New Black

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Prison on television and films is portrayed a lot more innocent than it actually is. They do not go into very much detail about the most intense parts. In this book, Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman, the readers are given a perspective on the inside view of the women 's criminal justice and get to see how horrifying it actually is. There are a variety of reasons why one would say that prison changed piper for the better knowing that once she came out she would be more cautious about her decisions but more reasons why it changed her for the better stand out and have a bigger impact. The first main reason why prison changed Piper for the worse is due to her and the other inmates being segregated by race, crime and sexual orientation. The second reason being if she wants to survive her sentence she has to join a gang and the last reason would be because the situations that the guards face Piper and the other inmates with would scar them. Piper clearly shows that the federal correctional facility changed her for the worse because throughout the book the inmates are being …show more content…
paragraph 189).” Every inmate would only stick to the newbie that were the same race as them, they would never involve with someone with a different ethnicity. Due to the fact that Piper was placed in these circumstances she was taught to treat people who had differences than her like less of a person. She was taught not to be involved with anyone outside of her race, sexual orientation and crime which made her experience outside of prison more difficult to adjust once she came out. Therefore, because prison segregates the women by race, crime, sexual orientation etc. proves that the danbury prison changed Piper for the worse by permanently damaging her outlook on other

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