In “Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again,” Giudice described some unappetizing conditions at Danbury, but mostly told titillating tales (about, for example, witnessing others having sexual hookups in her suite, which she dubbed “the Boom Boom Room”). Giudice, who pleaded guilty to fraud, also wrote a best-selling memoir about her time at Danbury. And I just think on a moral level, you have an obligation to do what you can,” Kerman said.Īlthough some former Danbury inmates have taken issue with the way the series depicts prison life, especially the comic elements, Kerman, in her consultant role, gives feedback on scripts to series creator Jenji Kohan, who is free to take them or leave them, said Kerman, whose heart seems to be in the right place. “And I had had a lot of good fortune before I was sent to prison and I was extremely conscious of the fact that the vast majority of the women that I had done time with … didn’t have the advantages or good fortune. She does this, she told me in a 2014 interview, because she came home from prison “to a safe and stable place to live,” a loving fiancé (now her husband) and a job. Kerman, a consultant on the Netflix series, is a member of the board of the New York non-profit Women’s Prison Association and a vocal advocate for changes to our criminal justice system. Suddenly, the post-prison journeys of Kerman and Giudice stood out in stark contrast.

That’s also where Kerman served 11 months of her 13-month sentence (for a decade-old drug-smuggling crime) - and the place that inspired the fictional Litchfield Penitentiary. It’s also that while previewing the early season four “OITNB” episodes, I also watched the seventh season premiere of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” which is largely about Teresa Giudice’s December 2015 release from Connecticut’s Danbury Federal Correctional Institution’s satellite camp. It’s not just that “OITNB” fans notoriously hate spoilers, and Netflix, mindful of this, released a long list of things to avoid revealing.

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