Reliable Source: 'Orange is the New Black' author visits Hill to call for prison reform

The author of "Orange is the New Black," the memoir that inspired the hit Netflix series of the same name, had a message for Capitol Hill: Reform should be the new black.During a Senate hearing on prison oversight Tuesday, Piper Kerman shared stories from her own 13-month federal sentence in Danbury, Conn., that sounded much like the on-screeen exploits of OITNB characters Red, Taystee and Pennsatucky. She urged lawmakers to address the ways the system discounts the needs of women prisoners.