![]() But Piper Chapman is a product of Jenji Kohan and her team’s writing and Taylor’s acting. ![]() I am basically a middle-class white woman and therefore fortunate and advantaged in terms of navigating the criminal justice system. How similar are Piper Kerman and Piper Chapman? (A few mild spoilers follow.) These are excerpts from the conversation. Last week, the day after she had testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee about the experiences of women and girls in the criminal justice system, she spoke about the final season - its sex, its tragedy, its chicken - and the fund the show has created to promote criminal justice reform and support formerly incarcerated women. In 2015, she and her husband, the writer Larry Smith, and their young son, relocated to Ohio, where she teaches narrative nonfiction in two correctional facilities. But Kerman is back in prison, voluntarily. ![]() In the seventh and final season, which began streaming on Netflix Friday Piper Chapman wins parole. Piper Kerman became Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a WASP convict whose story hooks the viewer just long enough to introduce dozens of characters who don’t have her white, middle-class advantages. She wrote a memoir, “Orange Is the New Black,” and that book, in the hands of the showrunner Jenji Kohan, became one of the first hits of the streaming era. In 2004, Piper Kerman, who had pleaded guilty to money laundering violations, entered federal prison. ![]()
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