![]() ![]() ![]() "Those connections are lifelines to the outside world, and they remind you that you have a life waiting for you," Kerman said. It is important, she told, that incarcerated women stay close to their homes and families. Kerman wrote a New York Times op-ed earlier this week criticizing the Board of Prisons plans to transfer the female prisoners incarcerated at the Danbury facility to Alabama. Piper Kerman is the author of the book that has become a Netflix hit and she has become a campaigner for prison reform since her release from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury in 2005. 16, 2013 — - The author of the prison memoir "Orange Is the New Black" is relieved that federal prison officials have halted plans to move 1,000 female inmates from Connecticut to a prison far from their families in Alabama, but questions the "rationale" for wanting to send the women far from their homes in the first place. ![]()
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