![]() ![]() ![]() She then left behind her world of crime, but was arrested a decade later. prison system.Ī self-described "fish out of water," the white, middle class Smith College graduate spent 15 months in the federal corrections system for drug trafficking and money laundering after falling in love with "an impossibly sophisticated and worldly older woman."Īt 24, Kerman took a suitcase of drug money from Chicago to Brussels to be delivered to a West African kingpin by her heroin-dealing girlfriend. ![]() The author of "Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison" details her thoughts on the the widely popular Netflix original, her time behind bars and the problems with the U.S. ASHEVILLE – Before addressing a crowd of more than 1,000 at the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina's Power of the Purse luncheon Tuesday, prison reform activist Piper Kerman sat down with the Asheville Citizen-Times. ![]()
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