The best-selling author of "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison" spoke to a full auditorium at Texas A&M University-Kingsville Wednesday as part of the University Lectureship Series. Years after her release, Kerman decided to write a memoir, not only to share her experiences in the American criminal justice system, but to help showcase the plight of the more than 200,000 women held in U.S. What Kerman found out her first day in prison was how much reality differed from the expectations she had always held about people who are incarcerated. One woman offered me a cup of instant coffee because I was shaking in my little slippers." "People asked me if I needed toothpaste, shower shoes because there was a really bad foot fungus in the showers. "I was put in general population to live out my sentence among hundreds of other women," Kerman said. 11187-424 and an inmate at a minimum security women's prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where she was placed for transporting drug money between Chicago and Brussels more than a decade before. For 13 months in the mid-2000s, Piper Kerman was no longer Piper Kerman.
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