Orange is the New Black was never a simple, straightforward show. When it first hit Netflix in 2013, the action centered around Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a privileged woman sent to a minimum security prison for a drug offense from a decade earlier. It was a comedy laced with drama, with most of the laughs deriving from the dark fish-out-of-water premise. Then the show aggressively evolved into an ensemble series, as well as a searing drama about race, gender, politics, and the criminal justice system. And because it's set in a prison, there are lots of characters ... and those characters come and go, just as as inmates do in real life.
After the fifth season, which took place entirely in the few days after the riot that capped season four, a large number of fan-favorite inmates were narratively unaccounted for. Among them: Brook Soso (Kimiko Glenn), Yoga Jones (Constance Shulman), Brandy Epps (Asia Kate Dillon), and Maritza Ramos (Diane Guerrero). The action of the show shifted to Litchfield's maximum security sister prison, while there have been mentions that other notable characters were moved to other prisons. That's probably where Maritza is ... and why Guerrero was absent from the sixth season.
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