Piper Kerman's best-selling memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison chronicles what the author calls her "crucible experience" -the 13 months she spent in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut. A brief dalliance with drug trafficking while she was in her early twenties sent Kerman to prison 10 years later on money laundering chargers. Her experience in prison provides the basis for the award-winning comedy-drama Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.