“I’m the product of two women’s institutions,” Piper Kerman ’92 told an audience in John M. Greene Hall on Thursday: Smith and federal prison. For the next two hours, Kerman, author of the memoir ...

With 2.3 million prisoners, America’s unprecedented maze of prisons and jails holds the biggest incarcerated population in the world. Inside our prison walls are men, women, and children who have been ...

When Piper Kerman carried $10,000 in drug money from Chicago to Brussels in 1993, she never expected to actually go to jail. She was one year out of college at Smith and waiting tables. Back then, she ...