Orange Is the New Black Chapter 10 Summary

How It All Goes Down

Schooling the OG

  • Piper has learned so much about prison cleaning, she might as well start Good Cellkeeping magazine.
  • When she's not cleaning, she's doing yoga with Yoga Janet to ease stress.
  • The GED program reopens. Piper doesn't take that job, but Miss Natalie succeeds in getting her GED.
  • Even though Piper isn't a teacher, she becomes a tutor, and all the women want her to help them study (no access to Shmoop in prison).
  • Mrs. Jones wrangles Piper into writing all her essays for her.
  • While Piper is helping Mrs. Jones plagiarize, the prison gets one last batch of newbs before shutting down.
  • See, Danbury is going to pretend to be closed (we guess they'll hide behind the furniture when someone rings the doorbell) so Martha Stewart doesn't get put there—no one wants to deal with her.
  • One of the new inmates is a nun, Sister Platte, and another is Little Alice, who gets thrown in the SHU when she speaks out against the cruel head of education, Stumpy.
  • Finally, graduation day arrives. Thanks to Piper's help, Mrs. Jones graduates and even gets a graduation photo taken with Piper in the background.