ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to fill education gap by discussing the importance of education within the prison system as well as its relationship to crime and re-offending. Netflix's Orange is the New Black (OITNB), first airing in 2013, provides a similar glimpse "behind the barbed wire" of the fictitious Litchfield Penitentiary while focusing on an oft-neglected segment of the US prison population: women. The wide-ranging appeal of television narratives about the prison experience is undoubtedly a consequence of America's alarming rise in the number of imprisoned individuals. The majority of formerly incarcerated individuals also have some level of caretaking responsibility for their families. The process of societal reintegration is known as prisoner reentry, and it entails a complex transition and reacclimatization to the various norms and expectations of "free" society. A variant of life skills education is the prison nursery program, available within some institutions, for incarcerated offenders who are pregnant.
