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Tomorrow, Netflix will release fourteen new episodes of the hit series Orange Is the New Black, inevitably renewing discussions of a host of prison issues. From the start of the series, the incarcerated women of Litchfield Penitentiary warn protagonist Piper Chapman about the horrors of “the SHU,” the federal prison’s Segregated Housing Unit. Chapman’s character, […]

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Solitary Confinement on Television: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ and Pop Culture’s Lockup Landscape

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by Hallie Grossman

June 16, 2016

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