This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Denison chapter.
Piper Kerman, author of the popular book-turned-television hit Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, spoke in front of a packed audience at Swasey Chapel on February 2nd.  Kerman discussed her personal experiences in prison, the flaws in the American incarceration system, and how her memoir became an award-winning Netflix original.