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This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« on: June 12, 2015, 11:37:54 AM »
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How 'Orange Is the New Black' Misrepresents Women's Federal Prison and Why It Matters

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amos-irwin/how-orange-is-the-new-black-misrepresents-womens-federal-prison-and-why-it-matters_b_7547334.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

Posted: 06/11/2015 3:41 pm EDT

In 1994, Dorothy Gaines was a nurse technician and PTA parent raising her younger sister and brother and three children alone in Mobile, Alabama after the death of her husband. Local drug dealers, desperate to reduce their own sentences, named her as an accomplice in their sale of crack cocaine. Their self-contradictory testimony was the only evidence against her, yet her court-appointed lawyer failed to cross-examine them or raise a defense. She was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Her 9-year-old son Phillip jumped in the judge's lap at sentencing and begged the judge not to take away his mother. Dorothy was sentenced to 19 years and seven months in federal prison. Her first time on a plane, she flew 1,300 miles to the same Connecticut prison that later held Piper Kerman, the author and real-life subject of Orange is the New Black.

Piper, Red, Crazy Eyes and the other colorful characters on Jenji Kohan's Netflix show Orange is the New Black have become the authoritative source on women's prisons for millions of Americans. This Friday -- when we all start binge-watching Season 3 to find out what happens to Rosa -- keep in mind that the show misrepresents the real women's federal prison population. If Netflix is the closest you've gotten to women's federal prison, here are four things that you need to know:

I think it's time we all realized exactly how seriously liberals take television.

Seriously: it's a ****ING TV SHOW, DUmmies. It doesn't MATTER what it misrepresents.

Women's prisons are probably a harsh mishmash of dykey strung out drug addicts and violent sheboon heifers. Who the hell wants to see that?

Other than Bertha, I mean.
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2015, 11:56:39 AM »
in the 80's there was a lot of women in prison porn where all the girls were totally hot.
you means life is not like that? There goes my transgender dream of being locked up with 2000 totally hot and lonely chicks.

Thanks DU! You ruined the dream.
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2015, 12:01:44 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on June 12, 2015, 11:56:39 AM
in the 80's there was a lot of women in prison porn where all the girls were totally hot.
you means life is not like that? There goes my transgender dream of being locked up with 2000 totally hot and lonely chicks.

Thanks DU! You ruined the dream.
How soon will some horny dude pretend to be transgender just to get cut loose in a sex starved women's prison.
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2015, 12:41:36 PM »
Other things TV does not portray accurately:
* Newsrooms
* Police precincts
* Police
* Detectives
* Crime scene investigators
* Restaurant kitchens and their owners
* Underemployed 20-somethings who live in midtown Manhatten
and of course
* the news

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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2015, 01:11:56 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 12, 2015, 12:01:44 PM
How soon will some horny dude pretend to be transgender just to get cut loose in a sex starved women's prison.

That's part of my retirement plan. I will walk into a bank, give the teller a holdup note, take whatever money they give me, then go out and sit on the curb until the police arrive. I'll plead not guilty, and claim to be a woman trapped inside a man's body.

Next stop, women's prison. 3 hots and a cot, medical care, and all of the wimmenz!
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2015, 01:51:30 PM »
This is from the same gang of morons who think the MASH series, NIS, and all the Law and Order variants reflect what things are really like in their own respective areas...and will continue to do so.  Of course it's a lot more likely that they will eventually (And involuntarily) see the inside of a prisoner's life than that they'll ever really work in the military, the police, or a DA's office.
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2015, 02:00:13 PM »
Quote from: Big Dog on June 12, 2015, 01:11:56 PM
That's part of my retirement plan. I will walk into a bank, give the teller a holdup note, take whatever money they give me, then go out and sit on the curb until the police arrive. I'll plead not guilty, and claim to be a woman trapped inside a man's body.

Next stop, women's prison. 3 hots and a cot, medical care, and all of the wimmenz!
Is there a super model prison? I don't want the one with the DU chicks in it.
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2015, 02:37:20 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on June 12, 2015, 11:56:39 AM
in the 80's there was a lot of women in prison porn where all the girls were totally hot.
you means life is not like that? There goes my transgender dream of being locked up with 2000 totally hot and lonely chicks.

Thanks DU! You ruined the dream.

Don't forget the fist full of pardons. It would be a blood bath what with the gladiator style fights to see who will get to be with you for the evening.  :-)
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2015, 07:51:23 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on June 12, 2015, 02:00:13 PM
Is there a super model prison? I don't want the one with the DU chicks in it.

There is a super max.... I think it's the same thing.
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2015, 08:09:56 PM »
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How 'Orange Is the New Black' Misrepresents Women's Federal Prison and Why It Matters

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amos-irwin/how-orange-is-the-new-black-misrepresents-womens-federal-prison-and-why-it-matters_b_7547334.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

Posted: 06/11/2015 3:41 pm EDT

In 1994, Dorothy Gaines was a nurse technician and PTA parent raising her younger sister and brother and three children alone in Mobile, Alabama after the death of her husband. Local drug dealers, desperate to reduce their own sentences, named her as an accomplice in their sale of crack cocaine. Their self-contradictory testimony was the only evidence against her, yet her court-appointed lawyer failed to cross-examine them or raise a defense. She was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Her 9-year-old son Phillip jumped in the judge's lap at sentencing and begged the judge not to take away his mother. Dorothy was sentenced to 19 years and seven months in federal prison. Her first time on a plane, she flew 1,300 miles to the same Connecticut prison that later held Piper Kerman, the author and real-life subject of Orange is the New Black.

Piper, Red, Crazy Eyes and the other colorful characters on Jenji Kohan's Netflix show Orange is the New Black have become the authoritative source on women's prisons for millions of Americans. This Friday -- when we all start binge-watching Season 3 to find out what happens to Rosa -- keep in mind that the show misrepresents the real women's federal prison population. If Netflix is the closest you've gotten to women's federal prison, here are four things that you need to know:

Really? All I need to know about the subject is two things:

1. I watch Lockup from time to time and...
2. Thank God we got prisons!

I guess the dummies forgot about the HBO show Oz. It was a prison serial too.  Didn't hear no complaints about that show!

I'll say a majority of the dummies know about prison first hand. Or at least jail. Probably more of the women than the men. 
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2015, 08:25:45 PM »
I watch 'Lockup' too.  It's great to see MSNBC representing the Democrat party base... criminals and liberals.
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2015, 08:27:35 PM »
I watch the Wire and Cops... and Dog the Bounty Hunter   ::) [girlfriend likes it]

it's exactly like that.

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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2015, 08:42:29 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on June 12, 2015, 12:41:36 PM
Other things TV does not portray accurately:
* Newsrooms
* Police precincts
* Police
* Detectives
* Crime scene investigators
* Restaurant kitchens and their owners
* Underemployed 20-somethings who live in midtown Manhatten
and of course
* the news

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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2015, 09:49:55 PM »
Quote from: dutch508 on June 12, 2015, 07:51:23 PM
There is a super max.... I think it's the same thing.
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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2015, 10:27:20 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on June 12, 2015, 09:49:55 PM
Super Max...Factor?     Mabeline Max?   

maybe it's Mabeline...

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Re: This just in: TV shows are not accurate portrayals of women's prisons
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