Piper Kerman

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Headed to the Hill for @HouseJudiciary crime subcommittee (Chair: @RepKarenBass) hearing on women & girls in the cr… https://t.co/vOpnSldTPG about 3 hours ago
RT @WPA_NYC: "Because there's so many more men in the system, and the systems are built by and for men, I think you can safely say, women's… about 3 hours ago
RT @WPA_NYC: "We don't need to lock women up in order to give them the things they need in order to prosper and reach their fullest potenti… about 4 hours ago

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Cosmopolitan, The Real Reason We Like Bad Girls (June 20, 2014)
The Diane Rehm Show, Piper Kerman On Her Story That Inspired The Netflix Series (June 9, 2014)
The New York Times, Jailhouse Blues (May 28, 2014)
U.S. Senate, Solitary Confinement Testimony, Piper Kerman
(Feb. 26, 2014)
New York Times, For Women, a Second Sentence (Aug. 13, 2013)
Fresh Air, NPR.com, Behind 'The New Black' (Aug. 12, 2013)

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Piper Kerman is the author of Orange is the New Black, now available in paperback and audiobook.