Weeks after Orange Is the New Black referenced a toll-free hotline that helps immigrants in detention centers obtain legal counsel, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allegedly shut down the number. Freedom for Immigrants, the California organization that created the National Immigration Detention Hotline in 2013, says the number was nixed …
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While Orange Is the New Black is a deftly written and widely beloved show, as some former prisoners have suggested, it’s not an 100% accurate representation of life inside the penitentiary system. Next month, however, Netflix will provide an in-depth look at a real American prison with the launch of …
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“This place is way too serious,” Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore) complains early in the new season of Orange Is the New Black. “This place” is the maximum security facility at Litchfield, where Cindy and a number of other inmates have been transferred in the wake of the minimum security camp …
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