Basically the plot ends up showing how sometimes those highly publicized deaths of African-americans/black people were really accidents and how easy it is to paint everyone in a position of power as the villain and let your emotion get the best of you. The aftermath of Poussey's death show two sides of the controversy of Black Lives Matter as it shows on one hand the business execs who own the prison don't allow Caputo to call the police and leave the body there for hours all so they can come up with a good cover story to protect the prison's reputation.In the midst of worrying about the prisoners forming gangs, they completely ignore the creation of a white supremacist gang which frequently agitates and provokes the other prisoners. The minority inmates (the Latin-American prisoners in particular) are singled out by the guards for frisking after Piper tips off Piscatella, and the white inmates are completely above suspicion despite the fact that Piper herself had been running a criminal enterprise for a while before the guards got there. One of the main themes of season 4 is racism, and how pervasive and harmful it continues to be in society, with prison being no exception.As the show portrays it, ex-cons who don't have supportive family or friends can end up homeless or trapped in unsafe living situations, and many return to crime because they can't get a job that pays a living wage. The biggest moral of the show in the last couple of seasons is that our society often sets up ex-cons for failure by hindering their ability to obtain lawful employment and housing and generally treating them like pariahs even though they've paid their debt to society.Pennsatucky, the primary antagonist of the first season, is only mentioned a handful of times in the memoirs, and never in an antagonistic context.In general, the real Larry was noted as being quite popular among the inmates and had "fans behind bars," and the woman who Red is based off of became quite suspicious when Piper was visited by an apparently single man. In real life, their relationship was understandably put to the test but never seriously suffered as it did in the show his memoir brought them closer together and she considered it a wonderful Christmas present. Larry writing about Piper's experience/profiting off of it was considered a Jerkass move in the show and drove a wedge between him and Piper.Piscatella is mistakenly shot in the head by a CERT member inside the prison.Poussey's death, though her friends firmly believe it was deliberate.He climbs out onto the fire escape to get away from her - and falls off to his death. The more time the kid spends with her, the more nervous he gets until he tries to leave and Suzanne flips out. She invited a small child home with her to play video games, unaware of the potential problems this might cause. It's revealed in Season 4 that this is the reason Suzanne aka "Crazy Eyes" is in prison.She is currently serving a sentence for manslaughter. and ended up pushing him off of a cliff to his death. Norma became angry, called him a son-of-a-bitch, and gave him a shove. Norma replied that she wouldn't leave him, and he responded by verbally abusing her. So he was feeling distressed and purposeless, urging Norma to leave like all the others. Two or three decades later, her husband's influence began to wane, the Cult disbanded, and all of Norma's sister-wives had left. Norma recalls how she became one of several wives to a hippie Cult leader back in The '70s.Sentenced to 15 months for her crimes, Chapman must trade her life in New York City for a stay in Litchfield Federal Correctional Institution with a motley crew of inmates, each with her own story-a Russian mobster ( Kate Mulgrew), a Hispanic woman (Dascha Polanco) whose first act is to get slapped by her angry mother, a trans woman who committed credit card fraud to finance her operations ( Laverne Cox), and more-not to mention her own personal nemesis, Alex.
Alex was Piper's college girlfriend, and Piper became an accomplice when she carried a suitcase full of money, once. But it all collapses when Alex Vause ( Laura Prepon), a member of an international drug ring, is brought to trial.
Starting as a 30-something yuppie, Piper Chapman ( Taylor Schilling) has it all: a degree from a prestigious college, a cushy job making artisanal soaps, and a faithful fiancé in Larry Bloom ( Jason Biggs).
Loosely based on the memoirs of Piper Kerman, the series follows her incarceration in a women's prison. Orange Is the New Black is a dramedy from Netflix based on the book of the same name.