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RandySF

(57,661 posts)
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:41 PM Jun 2014

Serious gap with Orange is the New Black (Potential Spoilers)

As much as I love the show, there is one serious gap that I have a hard time overlooking: A number of women are serving time in a (fictional) federal prison for state crimes. For example;

1. Yoga Jones serving time for mistakingly shooting an 8-year old boy in Humbolt (State crime. Does pot grow make it federal?)
2. Janae serving time for knocking over a liquor store. (State crime)
3. Gloria serving time for food stamp fraud. (state crime).
4. Tiffany serving time in a MINIMUM security facility for shooting a nurse at an abortion clinic with a shotgun. (state)

Can anyone point out where there might a federal angle?

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Serious gap with Orange is the New Black (Potential Spoilers) (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2014 OP
The second season has gotten pornographic too IronLionZion Jun 2014 #1
I'm just watching OITNB now Seeking Serenity Aug 2014 #2

IronLionZion

(45,262 posts)
1. The second season has gotten pornographic too
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 11:37 PM
Jun 2014

Tis fiction. Some of those crimes may have crossed state lines, which is easy to do in the NY/NJ/CT area.

Seeking Serenity

(2,838 posts)
2. I'm just watching OITNB now
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 04:11 PM
Aug 2014

and I noticed the very same thing, lots of inmates in a FEDERAL prison for crimes that would be prosecuted and punished under state jurisdictions.

That said, I'm kind of enjoying the show. When I told a friend I was going to start it, she said, "Oh, that lesbian show?" I thought she was just being facetious. Now I know better.

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