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5. We'll Always Have Baltimore

Company policies lead to a shortage of critical supplies and an eventful trip to a prison convention. Piscatella starts a new anti-gang initiative.

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Due to the recent economies, the prison starts to run thin on certain supplies, causing a black market around the prison. The guards start targeting the non-white prisoners and subjecting them to random searches. While Caputo attends a convention for prison employees with Linda, Taystee manages to guess the password to Caputo's computer and gets access to the internet. At the convention, Caputo gets arrested after getting into an altercation with Danny Pearson, who attempts to use the event to speak out against the system. Linda is turned on and has sex with Caputo in a closet.

In an effort to stop Maria from cutting into her panty business, Piper is given permission by Piscatella to form a security group. During their first meeting, the all-white volunteers begin to openly voice racist sentiments. Piper is horrified to realize she has accidentally created a white power group. Flashback: Maritza's life of crime expands from defrauding customers as a cocktail waitress to grand theft auto.

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