U.S. Prison: Rite of Passage
“Orange Is the New Black” disturbed me. I am not referring to the content, the writing or the acting in the television series. I am referring to the fact that a program set in an American prison is bound to be representative of the U.S. population because so many people are in prison. An estimated 1.53 million prisoners were held in state and federal facilities at year-end 2015, or 458 per 100,000, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. This is a 2.3 percent decrease