Orange is the New Black S2 E 11 Is about:

* The backstory of Sister Jane Ingalls (Beth Fowler) from arriving at the convent as an innocent new hopeful all the way to getting ex-communicated and arrested for her activism (and narcissism). In addition, she takes over SoSo's hunger strike and ends up in medical segregation as a result (even though she stopped eating about a week after the others).

* Polly (Maria Dizzia) and Larry (Jason Biggs) finally coming clean about their relationship (resulting in Larry getting hit in the face by Polly's husband but only after the possibility of a threesome is shot down by both Polly and Larry)

* The unceremonious end of the newsletter once Fig (Alysia Reiner) finds out that Piper's prisoner newspaper advertised SoSa's hunger strike demands.

* Red (Kate Mulgrew) regrouping after finding out that Big Boo (Lea DeLaria) sold out her contraband route Vee (Lorraine Toussaint). Vee regrouping after seeing that one of the Golden Girls tried to kill her (and ended up stabbing the wrong person).

* Chapman (Taylor Schilling) gets the news that she is being transferred to Virginia (obviously because Fig found out she had been meeting with the reporter). Also, she talks to Alex Vause (Laura Prepon) and finds out that Kubra (Eyas Younis) got off on a technicality and is likely after Alex.

5. "I Guarantee It Won't Get Past Healy"

SoSo (Kimiko Glenn) presents the list of demands from her group of hunger strikers to Piper and Piper puts in the newspaper after explaining that it "won't get past Healy." Healy (Michael Harney) is distracted and misses it entirely. As a result, Caputo (Nick Sandow) and Fig rush to suppress the strike and Fig disbands the newspaper.

One of the least discussed but most important areas for prison reform is transparency. Yes, inmates can call and report abuses to friends and families on the outside but it is incredibly hard for reporters or laypeople to confirm actual events inside. In addition, prison administration's relocate successful jailhouse lawyers and rabble rousers all the time to make it even harder for transparency to happen.

Of course, prisons are already placed far away from population centers, are surrounded by walls, and shrouded in secret rules and traditions of silence.

At one point during the episode, Caputo states, in reference to the length of time prisoners are placed in SHU, that a "system is in place, with strict guidelines which we are under no obligation to explain to you." That is pretty typical of DOC opacity in my experience.

Just a few days ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson wrote an article about why transparency should be an important part of criminal justice reform and I totally agree with her!

As we say in 12-step recovery programs, "we are only as sick as our secrets" (and the prison system has a LOT of secrets).

Oddly enough, Dr. Thompson also just wrote a piece on Orange is the New Black Season Five (spoiler alert).

4. Foosball

You might be surprised to see that Piper and Nicky (Natasha Lyonne) are playing foosball in the game room.

But yes, at low-security levels inmates often have table games like foosball. When I was at Mound Road we had ping-pong and when I was at Cotton we had a pool table and a ping-pong table in the game room.

Of course, someone did get stabbed by a broken pool cue while I was there...But, we did have a pool table (sigh).

3. "Not You, You're Not One of the Bad Ones"

"Golden Girl" Taslitz (Judith Roberts) makes this off-hand racist comment to Irma (Yvette Freeman) right before she decides that she should take Vee out herself.