I Didn’t Realize How Much We Needed To Examine Ourselves Until This Actress Spelled It Out

Laverne Cox is easily the breakout star of “Orange Is the New Black,” the hit Netflix series about a woman who goes to prison and explores her life there.

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Deepa Kunapuli

Sep 28, 2013

All of us should examine our love for television characters who represent the incarcerated — maybe if we saw people in prison as real people, just like we do when they’re well-written characters on TV, we’d all be better off.

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