Piper Kerman: To end recidivism, fix issues that lead to incarceration
Kerman spent more than a year incarcerated. Hear her story of re-entry.
Piper Kerman, author of the memoir "Orange is the New Black," which was turned into an award winning Netflix series, spent a year in a women's prison after her arrest and conviction on drug charges.
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While her incarceration experiences were a struggle, her transition back to society was, compared with most women who leave the prison system, relatively smooth. Find out what she encountered and how it differs from the poverty, lack of services and assistance that so many women face. She's an advocate for better transitional services and pushes to change our modern-day prison structure for men, women and juveniles.
Above, take a look at her Facebook live interview with Eileen Rivers, web content editor for Paste BN's Editorial Page and editor of Policing the USA's Re-entry project.