Orange is the New Black

Great institutions have leaders who are proud of what they do, and who engage with everyone who makes up those institutions, so each person understands their role.

We were scared-two hundred prisoners alone with one guard having a psychotic break

She was not the sharpest tool in the shed

She was one of the only people I knew who’d gotten anything positive out of her prison stay: new teeth.

Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient-people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled.

I imagined Martha Stewart trying to take over Pop’s kitchen. That would be better than Godzilla vs. Mothra.

DeSimon had shaved off his beard and mustache and now looked a lot like a lost penis, wandering around in search of a body.

The only men they come in contact with are prison guards, and if the CO is a half-decent human being, he will find himself the object of crushes. If he is a cocky bastard, even more so.

. It was bizarre to go into the homes of our jailers and see their angel collections and family photos and pets and laundry and messy basements.

seeing-eye dog