How does Orange compare with Wentworth

By Ruth Ritchie
Updated August 4 2014 - 11:08am, first published August 1 2014 - 11:45pm
Phoning home: Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman in <i>Orange is the New Black</i>.
Phoning home: Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman in <i>Orange is the New Black</i>.

What’s the difference between Wentworth and Orange Is the New Black? The difference between gaol and jail? That is the short answer. Both of these shows are set in prisons/penitentiaries not gaols/jails, so strictly speaking, grammatical parochialism is not the issue. Ostensibly, these are both microcosms of society, arbitrarily taking place in a women’s correctional facility. Wentworth is set in Clayton, Victoria. Orange is set in upstate New York.

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