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#OITNB’s Real Life Piper On How US Jail Fails Women

The author of best-selling memoir “Orange Is The New Black” has called for the U.S. female prison system to be radically overhauled. Piper Kerman, whose book was turned into the acclaimed Netflix show, gave testimony before a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday. Taylor Schilling plays the lead in the hit TV show (credit: Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection/REX) “If any member of this committee had the opportunity to meet the hundreds of women that I did time with, you would p