“But when we pulled up, I got really scared. “I thought I had done everything to prepare myself for that moment,” said Kerman. Nearly a decade after the crime, Kerman turned herself in to the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Connecticut, where she served 13 months of a 15-month sentence. In 1998, Kerman pleaded guilty to money laundering and was sentenced for the felony. The officers implied that I would be serving time and at that point I knew.” They informed me that I was to appear in court on an indictment. “I answered the door and standing in front of me were a couple of federal officers. “Well, it was actually a door bell,” as she engaged the audience. “It was 1998 and I heard a knock at the door,” Kerman stated as she knocked on the podium. Not too long after Kerman ended the relationship, she returned to the United States, and picked up where she left off. Not long into the relationship, Kerman realized that her friend was living a reckless life as a heroin dealer, and when she was begged to carry money from Chicago to Brussels, she knew at that point that she was in a predicament. Soon after Kerman graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1992, she began an adventurous lifestyle with a friend. With at least 200 attendees in the audience, the crowd listened intently as Kerman gave a quick synopsis of her life and words of hope for the future. The book is a representation of race, class, gender, power, friendship, and empathy – all themes found in prison. These were the feelings expressed by Piper Kerman, author of the memoir “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” during Ohio University Chillicothe’s Kennedy Lecture in the Bennett Hall Auditorium on April 17, 2018. She was in a situation that she didn’t know how to navigate. Photographer: By Bowen SmithPiper Kerman, author of the memoir 'Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison'Īnd it was at that point she realized she had crossed a line that should never have been crossed.

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