Why Is Sister Ingalls In Prison On 'Orange Is the New Black'? Turns Out This Nun Has Always Been A R

One of the best issues about Orange Is the New Black is just how expertly it manages to drag a unusually badass backstory out of the impossible of characters. Take Season 1, once we learned that Litchfield's resident Catholic nun, Sister Ingalls, was in jail for political protesting. But when we were given her full backstory in Season 2's "Take A Break From Your Values," it turned out that Sister Ingalls' past was even more intriguing: She was once actually fairly of a superstar nun in the actual world, who had won status each from her political activism, in addition to from a guide about her controversial demonstrations — the spectacularly titled, Nun Shall Pass.

The personality of Sister Ingalls itself was primarily based on the real Catholic activist Sister Ardeth Platte, who served two years in prison for her anti-nuclear protests. Just like Sister Ingalls, the actual Sister Platte broke into nuclear facilities together with different nuns, in order to peacefully exhibit their deep disapproval of nuclear era. But while the protests may have been technically "peaceful" in that they were non-violent, Sister Platte's demonstrations were also quite gruesome. So is going an Associated Press record from a 2002 demonstration at a nuclear facility in Colorado:

The nuns lower a chain link fence surrounding a Minuteman III silo in northern Colorado, then used baby bottles to attract a signal of the go in their very own blood.

As a results of that bloody protest, Platte and her fellow nun compatriots were branded terrorists and arrested. But even after an early liberate in 2005, Sister Platte assured the AP that she nonetheless stood through her convictions. "It's my religious commitment ... I would never stand with this government in any kind of killing," she stated at the time. In Season 2 OITNB, Sister Ingall's giant expose was once that she used to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church — principally, kicked out — as a result of her attention-seeking antics and the "sexy" interludes she had her ghostwriter add to her memoir about protesting in a foreign country.

But OITNB was a lot less critical of Sister Ingall's actions and makes the point that possibly the pleasure or even self-aggrandizing delight that incorporates doing just right can, in itself, be a excellent thing. Without Sister Ingalls' streak of arrogance, she'd almost certainly never have been bold enough to stand up for Sophia (who in the long run turned into certainly one of her closest pals in the prison), or take Brook's starvation strike and switch it into a borderline national scandal.

After making Sister Ingalls take extra of a backseat in Season 3, I will be able to best hope showrunners will reunite Sophia and Sister Ingalls again in Season 4, showing them operating together as soon as again to struggle for Sophia's rights. And at the end of Season 2, it looked like the ones nuns were prepared to turn up and fight for the obvious human rights violations going down in Litchfield, and they're always just a name away. But let's be truthful, the Catholic Church hasn't precisely confirmed itself to be maximum progressive establishment. Sister Ingalls would possibly actually to find herself pressured to make a choice from sticking up for her BFF and having a position for her again in the dependancy (metaphorically talking, no less than) once she will get out of prison.

Of route, as a superfan of the extra sappy Orange Is the New Black episodes, I'd like to ultimately see Sister Ingalls pick Sophia and watch the two of them take MCC down. But I know the show often goes bitter when you need it sweet, so I guess I'll just be staring at nervously from the fringe of my seat when the show comes back... a 12 months from now. Sigh. It's going to be a lengthy wait.

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