We previously released a briefing on solitary confinement and the mentally ill, as well as published letters to the editor.This report focuses on the introduction of bills facilitating the over incarceration problem in Ohio’s prisons.

We recently released “Ohio’s Statehouse-to-Prison Pipeline”.

We want to make changes in Ohio’s criminal laws, including the issues of over incarceration, drug addiction, mental health, and sentencing. Plan of Action for the ACLU of Ohio Piper and the ACLU of Ohio are in this fight together.

She teaches nonfiction writing at the Marion Correctional Institution and the Ohio State Reformatory.

She testified in front of congress on the negative impact of solitary confinement.

She dialogues on the issues of mental health and mass incarceration – as well as – girls’ and women’s rights on her Twitter.

She serves on the board of the Women’s Prison Association in New York City.

Piper is an activist, and is using her newly found notoriety and success in all the right ways.

Piper’s Impact Piper has taken her real-life experience in prison, engrained it into the American people’s psyche, and now everyone is paying attention. Get a copy of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman’s Prison and watch the show “Orange is the New Black.” For more information on prisoner rights, visit our issue page. Visit our event page for further details and to RSVP. The event is free and open to the public. Engage with Piper and hear her discuss her personal experiences, as well as relay stories and insights into the issues surrounding women’s prisons, mass incarceration, and solitary confinement. for the 2015 Ed Likover Memorial Lecture, with our special guest Piper Kerman. Piper is not just the inspiration behind the show, she is the real life hero tackling issues surrounding prison. In fact it is based on the book, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman’s Prison, the memoir of Piper Kerman. Prison is not the easiest topic to make entertaining, but The Washington Post called “Orange is the New Black” “ the best TV show about prison ever made.” Of course “Orange is the New Black” is not all entertainment, and not entirely fiction.

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