2įederal prisoners are different from inmates in state prisons. Nearly half are serving time for drug offenses. Approximately 30% are serving sentences of 3 to 5 years or less.
The largest groups of non-citizens come from Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. The average age is 39, 59% are White and 37% are Black, while 35% designate their ethnicity as “Hispanic.” Only 73% of federal inmates are US citizens. FPC’s have “dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and limited or no perimeter fencing.” 1 At the present, there are 177,283 inmates in BOP facilities, 6.5 percent of whom are female. Danbury is one of seven facilities that house women, and it has both a Federal Prison Camp (FPC) that houses only minimum-security inmates and a Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) that houses women at higher security levels (as well as operates the Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program). The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) operates several types of facilities that house inmates of various custody levels. The federal prison camp is a unique correctional environment. This is not the be all and end all of the prison experience, but rather one woman’s journey through a year of uncertainty, boredom and repeated humiliation as well as a year of learning, revelation, tactics of doing time, and finding friendship and forgiveness in unlikely places. Written as a memoir, Kerman balances facts and observations with an easy style of candid intimacy. Orange is the New Black based upon Piper Kerman’s thirteen-month experience at the federal prison camp in Danbury, CT is a great read. Publisher: New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010. Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
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