A few ‘Inmates’ from ‘Orange’ discuss prison life
An upper-middle class blonde from Brooklyn goes to jail for a drug-related screw-up years before.
The women’s federal prison of “Orange Is the New Black” is a different world than Piper Chapman had known, populated with a wildly varied group of characters played (alongside series star Taylor Schilling) by TV’s most diverse cast of actors.
As this Netflix series shot its second season last fall on its Queens, New York, soundstage, a visit to the all-too-gritty-looking prison set found several of these actresses delighted to be serving time on this groundbreaking drama (whose 13 new episodes are available for streaming Friday on the Netflix website):