Welcome to Prison

Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman

In the season one first episode of Orange is the New Black we're introduce to the main character Piper chapman. We experience with her the surrender to the corrections facility. Lauren Morelli did a great job in slowly introducing the viewer into the life of a prisoner as Piper experiences prison for the first time.

Some of the issues we see introduce in this episode are:

• Racism

• Sexism

• Sexuality

• Economic class

• Problems with the Statute of limitations

(INCITE a look into "Race, Class, Gender and Prisons") -- Recently co-Founder of INCITE, Beth Richie, on a panel discussion talk about some of these issues as well as other that have affected women in the prison system.

What is interesting is how each of these things are put under the microscope while these women are in prison. We only get a glimpse of how this is dealt with in the first episode, but hopefully later episodes will give deeper insight, possibly with different characters.


Happy Viewing!