![]() ![]() Pingback: How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down | BerniceMaxma. Pingback: How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down - Da Congregation Ent Pingback: How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down - We Are 10,000 Note: This story originally posted on October 24, 2013. “When people know the real stories of real people, they will recognize that our incarceration mania is a real problem.” ![]() While telling her story, Kerman makes a plea to the inmates in the audience: talk about your experience. “There are 700,000 people coming home from prison and jail every single year in this country,” she says. This real story fills in the gaps and answers some questions.” There is a mystery about things that happen in the dark and behind bars and fences. “Prison and prisoners are much hidden and unknown. “The men who curate and attend the TEDxMarionCorrectional repeatedly asked if we thought inviting her would bring the issue up to people who normally wouldn’t give it a thought,” they said. Piper Kerman, aka 'The Real Piper', is the author of the memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison from Spiegel & Grau, which has been adapted into an original television series for Netflix. ( Watch three talks from it in 2012.) Event organizers Jo Dee Davis and Jordan Edelheit shared with the TED Blog their rationale for inviting Kerman to speak. This talk is especially powerful because it was given at TEDxMarionCorrectional, an event held inside a prison in Ohio that features talks from inmates and employees of the prison system. ![]()
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