To paraphrase Regina Spektor’s earworm of a theme song, you’ve had time — 10 years, to be exact. If you can believe it, it’s been a full decade since acclaimed dramedy Orange Is the New Black premiered on Netflix. Based on Piper Kerman’s 2010 memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison and created by Jenji Kohan, the series follows an ensemble of characters serving time at the fictional Litchfield Penitentiary in upstate New York. It gives us nuanced and diverse stories about imperfect women trying to survive in a mostly inhospitable environment. 

Over the course of seven seasons, we laughed, we gasped, we had our hearts broken and then mended again, and we met a whole host of interesting characters both in and out of prison jumpsuits — so many, in fact, that you might be racking your brain trying to remember who’s who and who’s Big Boo (just kidding, Big Boo is one of a kind). So, to commemorate this major milestone, we thought it would be a good time to remember all their faces — or at least, most of their faces — by revisiting some of the major Orange Is the New Black characters and how they spent their time behind bars. 

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Piper Chapman 

Served time for: Money laundering and criminal conspiracy after smuggling money internationally as part of Alex Vause’s (Laura Prepon) drug-trafficking ring

How we found her: Orange Is the New Black kicks off with Piper self-surrendering to Litchfield minimum-security prison after ex-girlfriend Alex named her in her own trial to get a better deal. Piper has plans to resume her normie life with fiancé Larry (Jason Biggs) and her artisanal soap business with best friend Polly (Maria Dizzia) after serving her time, but she has absolutely no idea what was waiting for her on the other side of those prison bars.

How we left her: Piper gets an early release at the end of Season 6 and spends Season 7 trying to adjust to life on the outside, living with her brother Cal (Michael Chernus) and his wife, working an admin job her dad begrudgingly agrees to and interacting somewhat tensely with Larry and Polly, who are now together. Although her now prison wife Alex tells her not to wait for her release, Piper can’t imagine a life without her and, having completed her parole, moves to Ohio when Alex gets transferred to a prison there.

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Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson 

Serving time for: Drug-related charges, violating parole and eventually a life sentence after being wrongly convicted for CO Piscatella’s (Brad William Henke) murder during a prison riot

How we found her: Taystee’s most likely serving time because of her involvement in her (kind of sociopathic!) mother figure Vee’s (Lorraine Toussaint) drug empire, but she’s about as upbeat as one can be in her situation. She lived in some pretty miserable foster care situations on the outside, but in prison she’s found a family, particularly her best friend Poussey (Samira Wiley).

How we left her: When Poussey is fatally suffocated by a guard during a protest, everything changes for Taystee. Seeking justice for the murder of her friend, she’s a leader during the riot. When she has a chance to kill Piscatella, whose sadistic leadership she blames for Poussey’s death, she stops herself — but winds up getting pinned for Piscatella’s death anyway when he’s killed by friendly fire and Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore) testifies against her to save herself. The injustice of it all drives Taystee to a devastatingly low place, but she finds a way back by tutoring other inmates for their GEDs. She eventually figures out the perfect way to honor her friend: With the help of ex-inmate and celeb chef and entrepreneur Judy King (Blair Brown), she starts the Poussey Washington Fund, giving loans to recently released convicts. After all her struggles, she seems to have found a measure of peace.

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Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren 

Serving time for: Kidnapping and involuntary manslaughter, after she attempts to befriend a young customer at the store where she works and he falls out of a window trying to get away from her

How we found her: It all started with some peppers. Our first real introduction to fan-favorite Suzanne (and Aduba’s award-winning performance) is when she offers Piper some peppers to help her smooth things over with Red (Kate Mulgrew) — Suzanne then assumes Piper is going to be her prison wife. Prone to outbursts and hallucinations, especially when off her meds, Suzanne is looked after by Taystee, Poussey and Cindy (even though no one can really protect her from Vee’s manipulations).

How we left her: Suzanne might have spent a lot of time avoiding the psych ward, but once she’s placed in “Florida,” aka Litchfield’s B-block, she seems to do much better. That’s surprising, since she’s in such a bad state leading up to and during the riot (sparked, in part, when the COs force her to fight another inmate). She strikes up an unlikely friendship with P-Tuck (Taryn Manning), her eyes are opened to the unfairness of the justice system and she takes care of a whole lot of chickens (not a metaphor) for a while. Suzanne sums it up in the finale in her final conversation with Taystee, who notices a difference in her friend. Suzanne replies that she’s finally growing up. 

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Nicky Nichols 

Serving time for: Breaking and entering; heroin possession

How we found her: Nicky winds up in the same dorm as Piper on the latter’s first day and becomes a sort-of guide to the newbie. She’s fiercely loyal to Red, who helped her get clean, and to Lorna (Yael Stone), with whom she was hooking up (before Lorna cut it off to remain loyal to her fiancé). Nicky battles her addictions throughout the series. In Season 3, she sells a stash of heroin with CO Luschek (Matt Peters) rather than using it. She eventually relapses when Luschek rats her out and she goes to maximum security. She finally gets — and stays — clean after returning to camp.

How we left her: In Season 7, Nicky has to watch as Lorna suffers a psychotic break, and she cares for Red as she descends into dementia. She’s lost a lot of people, but the last time we see her, Nicky has fully stepped into the role of prison mom, just like Red, running the kitchen and helping other inmates get sober.

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Galina “Red” Reznikov 

Serving time for: Thanks to her husband, their Russian grocery store and that time she deflated a mob boss’s wife’s breast implant, Red was highly involved with the Russian mafia — including offering up her freezer to store bodies. So, something related to that, probably.

How we found her: Red is a power player at Litchfield. She runs the kitchen, protects her prison family and runs a successful smuggling business by way of the produce coming into the prison. She’s feared and respected — for good reason. (Remember when Piper called the food disgusting and Red served her a dirty tampon the next day before starving her out?) 

How we left her: In one of the most tragic transformations of the series, Red is diagnosed with dementia that’s only made worse by an extended stay in solitary confinement. Red’s eventually sent to Florida, where she reunites with old pal Frieda (Dale Soules), only intermittently remembering that Frieda’s betrayal after the riot got Red sent to SHU in the first place. She also reunites with her surrogate daughter Lorna, who’s also declining mentally.

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Dayanara “Daya” Diaz 

Serving time for: Presumably drug-related charges related to her mother Aleida’s (Elizabeth Rodriguez) boyfriend’s activities, followed by a life sentence for killing CO Humphrey (Michael Torpey) during the riot

How we found her: Daya arrives at Litchfield the same day Piper does and is promptly slapped hello by her mother, Aleida — so that’s a complicated relationship. Daya quickly falls into a romantic relationship with CO Bennett (Matt McGorry) and winds up pregnant. Wanting to keep the baby but not wanting to get Bennett in trouble, she hatches a plan to make it appear that another CO, George “Pornstache” Mendez (Pablo Schreiber) is the father; he’s sent to prison for rape. Although drama seems to follow Daya, she’s one of the more reserved, introverted inmates at Litchfield.

How we left her: Boy, do things take a turn. One of the leaders of the riot, Daya kills CO Humphrey and gets a life sentence. She arrives at Max with a high status and continues to gain power (poisoning your lover for cheating on you will do that) until she ends up running the drug game there. Unfortunately, she also becomes an addict herself, eventually enlisting her teenage sister on the outside to help her smuggle drugs. When Aleida catches wind of this, she’s livid. The last time we see the mother-daughter duo, Aleida is choking Daya out. There’s no confirmation as to what happens, but there’s no way both these women survive prison together. 

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Gloria Mendoza 

Served Time For: Food stamp fraud at her bodega

How we found her: Although a fiercely protective prison mom, Gloria is hesitant to do anything that might jeopardize her chance to rejoin her family on the outside. She takes over the kitchen from her rival, Red, after Red’s smuggling business is exposed.

How we left her: After an extended time in adjacent SHU cells, Gloria and Red bond — which is important, since Gloria carries the weight in the kitchen as Red starts to deteriorate. She can’t help but care about the women beside her and gets involved in a cell phone smuggling ring; when they’re caught, Gloria decides to take the fall for her one-time enemy Maria, even though she has just nine days left of her sentence. Thankfully, scummy CO Luschek seems to take Gloria’s speech about his callousness to heart, admitting to smuggling the cell phones himself. The series ends with Gloria safely at home with her kids and grandkids.

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Alex Vause 

Serving time for: Drug trafficking for an international cartel, followed by a parole violation (not serving time for: That guard who turned out to be a cartel hitman that she kills in the prison yard and then dismembers!)

How we found her: Alex gives up ex-girlfriend Piper’s name in court for time off her sentence and then, wouldn’t ya know, the two end up at Litchfield together. Alex lies about her testimony and eventually the two start sleeping together again. But the truth gets out, as it always does, and when Alex gets early release for testifying against her old boss in the cartel, it’s Piper who reports her for violating parole and lands her back in prison. So their relationship is, let’s call it, complicated.

How we left her: When Piper gets released, Alex pushes her to move on, even though they’re prison married. Alex starts hooking up with CO McCullough (Emily Tarver), who also happens to be pressuring her to sell phones in the prison. When Alex decides she wants to stop both the relationship and the phone smuggling, McCullough has her transferred to Ohio. She spends the rest of her sentence there — with a lot of familiar Litchfield faces! — and Piper eventually moves to Ohio so they can be closer.

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Blanca Flores

Served time for: Assisting her elderly employer with covering up a hit-and-run

How we found her: For a while, most of the Litchfield inmates believe Blanca to be completely insane — she’s constantly talking to the devil in a bathroom stall, looks kind of feral, etc. — but it’s Piper who discovers that Blanca is actually talking to her boyfriend (whose name happens to be Diablo, played by Dario Zuniga) on a hidden cell phone. She does some time in psych and returns a little less unhinged.

How we left her: Piper and Alex might get named OITNB’s best couple most often, but Blanca and Diablo are right up there. The longing! The waiting! Leaving sperm in the visitor bathroom so Blanca can try to be artificially inseminated! At the end of Season 6, Blanca believes she’s getting early release alongside Piper, but in a tragic twist, she’s sent to an ICE detention center instead and told that her green card was invalidated when she took a plea deal for participating in the riot. To make matters worse, while visiting Blanca, Diablo gets detained for an expired green card and is later deported to Honduras. Gloria helps Blanca with a lawyer and eventually the riot conviction is dropped, which means Blanca gets released and is able to renew her green card. She immediately heads to Honduras to finally be reunited with Diablo. 

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Cindy “Black Cindy” Hayes 

Serving time for: Theft while working at her TSA job

How we found her: Cindy’s friendly with Taystee and Poussey, but begins working for Vee in Season 2, until Vee blames her after her heroin goes missing. Cindy then works with Taystee and Poussey to try and bring Vee down. Oh, and Cindy — brought up in a very Christian home — converts to Judaism, first just for the kosher meals, but then she really gets into it. 

How we left her: Oh, Cindy. She testifies against Taystee in her trial for the murder of Piscatella even though she knows it was a setup, in order to save herself from more prison time. The two never reconcile. The scene in the library in Season 7’s “And Brown is the New Orange” when Suzanne tries to get her two friends to speak is gutting. When Cindy is released, it’s Taystee who writes to Cindy’s little sister and tells her that, surprise, she’s actually Cindy’s daughter. On the outside, Cindy’s homeless for a while, but in the end, has a job and makes a moving promise to her daughter and mother that she will make things right.

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Tiffany “Pennsatucky” Doggett 

Serving time for: Murdering a nurse at an abortion clinic who had remarked on how many abortions Pennsatucky’s had (though she gets a relaxed sentence after her case is taken up by some well-funded Christians).

How we found her: Pennsatucky is a menace. Having become a religious zealot, she preaches about God and then harasses everyone she doesn’t approve of. She attempts to murder Piper at the end of Season 1, but gets her teeth punched in instead. 

How we left her: During the riot, Pennsatucky manages to escape Litchfield and seeks refuge with CO Coates (James McMenamin), who, you may recall, was her rapist with whom she fell in love — it was horrifyingly toxic. They decide to make a run for Canada, but on the way, Pennsatucky decides to turn herself back in. She’s sent to Florida while in Max, where she becomes friendly with Suzanne and decides to get her GED. When she isn’t given extra time for the test even though she was promised it due to her learning disability, she believes she’s failed. Despondent, Pennsatucky overdoses and dies. In a heartbreaking reveal, Taystee, Pennsatucky’s tutor, learns that P-Tuck did actually pass the test. 

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Lorna Morello 

Serving time for: Stalking, harassment, attempted murder, a real who’s-who of terrible life choices

How we found her: At first glance, Lorna seems a little flighty and very much a romantic. She angsts over hooking up with Nicky while engaged to Christopher (Stephen O’Reilly). But then we learn that she’s not engaged to Christopher — he’s actually the guy she was obsessed with, stalked and then tried to kill his girlfriend — our entire view of Lorna is rocked. 

How we left her: In Season 3, Lorna marries a pen pal she was trying to scam and in Season 5, she learns she’s pregnant (you can thank CO Bell, played by Catherine Curtin, for the impromptu conjugal visit). She has the baby prematurely and not long after, the baby dies in the NICU. When her husband tries to tell her this, Lorna has a psychotic break. He divorces her and she’s left a shell of a person as she finishes out her sentence.

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Maria Ruiz 

Serving time for: Trafficking counterfeit jeans 

How we found her: Ruiz is extremely pregnant at the start of the series. After she has her baby and hands her daughter off to her boyfriend, she suffers from postpartum depression. Later, as the Dominican population at Litchfield grows, Ruiz takes on more of a leadership role.

How we left her: Ruiz made a lot of enemies following the riot, but the biggest one is Gloria. While being interrogated, Gloria makes sure several women point to Ruiz as the brains behind the entire thing (to be fair, she did play a major role in organizing until she chickened out to avoid more prison time) and Ruiz ends up getting 10 years added to her sentence. She’s also almost drowned in the toilet by another inmate. While angry at the world — and her ex-boyfriend, who is now living with a new Maria — Ruiz winds up in a restorative justice course taught by Caputo (Nick Sandow) and begins to find peace with her situation. In the finale, we find her reading a book sent to her by Gloria to her daughter with help from the new Maria.

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Marisol “Flaca” Gonzales 

Serving time for: Selling fake LSD to her high school classmates that led to one person jumping off the roof of the building

How we found her: Our onetime goth queen and one half of the beloved Flaritza friendship, Flaca likes to pretend to be dumb but is actually pretty smart. While she’s used for a lot of comic relief, she does tend to take her friendships and various jobs (prison newsletter, panty-wearer, riot live-blogger) pretty seriously.

How we left her: Although the iconic duo Flaritza is split up after the riot, they do eventually reunite in Season 7, when Flaca ends up working in the ICE detention center kitchen where Maritza is being held. Although Maritza gets a heartbreaking conclusion to her story (which we’ll get to!), Flaca remains inspired by attempting to help her friend sort out her immigration issues and becomes an ally to the other women at the detention center, trying to get them assistance with their cases any way she can.

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Maritza Ramos 

Served time for: A scammer by trade, Maritza gets caught during a car theft scam gone wrong and later is detained by ICE.

How we found her: The other half of Flaritza, Maritza boasts the best eyeliner game in Litchfield and considers herself Aleida’s prison daughter, which immediately puts her at odds with Daya, Aleida’s real daughter, when Daya finds herself in the Spanish Harlem block.

How we left her: It’s certainly not a competition as to which inmate gets the least happy ending, but wow, does Maritza’s story end in a gutting fashion. Sent to Ohio after the riot, Maritza is eventually released. While still on parole in NYC, she’s detained by ICE during a raid at a club when she can’t produce her ID. Believing this all to be a big mistake since she’s a US citizen, she has Flaca try to get in touch with her mother and get her birth certificate. It’s Flaca who learns that Maritza was actually born in Colombia and brought to the US illegally. When we last see her, Maritza is put on a plane headed to Colombia — a place she’s never been — as she slowly disappears along with all the other women on that flight.

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Sophia Burset 

Served time for: Credit card fraud

How we found her: When we first meet Sophia, she’s two years into a five-year prison sentence and making the most of it as the prison hair stylist. She’s dealing with the ramifications of knowing it was her own son who turned her into the police (he was angry with her for transitioning, though the two make amends eventually), the removal of her hormone meds and transphobic harassment from both guards and other prisoners. After an altercation with Gloria in Season 3, Aleida begins spreading rumors; eventually, Sophia’s put in SHU “for her own safety” and it takes some time before she’s back on her feet.

How we left her: Sophia’s given early release at the end of Season 6 along with Piper, and she’s met outside Max by her wife. In Season 7, Sophia and Piper share the same parole officer and eventually Piper visits Sophia at her salon. In short: Sophia’s now making the most of her post-prison life. 

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Poussey Washington 

Served time for: Minor drug charge

How we found her: Serving a six-year sentence, former army brat Poussey is Taystee’s kindhearted best friend (although possibly wanting more?) who works in the library and makes great hooch. Everybody gets along with Poussey — which is why when she’s the one person rubbed the wrong way by Vee’s actions at Litchfield, everyone should’ve paid attention. They do eventually come around, but so much drama could’ve been averted had people just listened to her in the first place!

How we left her: In one of the most heartbreaking moments of the entire series, Poussey attempts to help Suzanne when she begins to have an emotional outburst during a peaceful protest against Piscatella’s treatment of the inmates, but things get wildly out of hand and CO Bayley (Alan Aisenberg) restrains Poussey by kneeling on her back and she suffocates to death. It’s devastating, and the disrespect Poussey is shown afterward — her body is left on the cafeteria floor for hours, and Caputo chooses to back up Bayley instead of turning him over to the police — is what leads to the Litchfield riot in Season 5.

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Carrie “Big Boo” Black 

Serving time for: Most likely related to her gambling ring

How we found her: Although Big Boo is part of Red’s family, she isn’t the most loyal of people (not even to her therapy dog Little Boo, but let’s not go there). She gets involved in various illegal activities in the prison, including assisting Vee and then later Nicky with drug sales, but also becomes protective over Pennsatucky, especially once she discovers what Coates has been doing to her. 

How we left her: During the riot, Big Boo falls for Linda (Beth Dover), an MCC admin who’s stuck in the prison and mistaken for an inmate. Big Boo is not pleased when she learns who Linda really is and turns her over to the other inmates (Linda winds up transferred to Ohio but eventually, people figure out she doesn’t belong there — it does take a while though!). At the end of the riot, Big Boo is transferred to the Ohio prison, and we see her along with several other Litchfield inmates still serving time at the end of the series.

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Brook Soso 

Serving time for: Illegal protesting (she was living in a tree so it wouldn’t be cut down)

How we found her: The highly chatty Soso attempts to bring her activism to Litchfield, but it mostly fails and she has a tough time adjusting to prison life. Things get so bad, she tries to end her life by overdosing, but is discovered by Poussey — and the two begin an unlikely romantic relationship.

How we left her: After Poussey dies, Soso spends most of the riot trying to cope with her grief. She uses books from the library to build a sort of sanctuary in the halls in Poussey’s honor and is found there when the SWAT team raids the prison at the end of the riot. We don’t see Soso again until the final episode, where we find her amongst several other former Litchfield inmates at the Ohio prison.

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Joe Caputo 

Title(s): “Director of Human Activities,” bass player for Side Boob, Executive Assistant to the Warden, Warden, volunteer restorative justice teacher

How we found him: Caputo is mostly a skeezeball, but he does seem to be one of the few people who actually sees the inmates as human beings. He’s obsessed with taking down Figueroa, aka Fig, played by Alysia Reiner (they, of course, begin hooking up) and is mostly exasperated while trying to keep things at the prison under control. The best thing OITNB does for Caputo is have him hire Taystee as his secretary and let the two bond. This becomes complicated — and a little heartbreaking — when Caputo decides to protect CO Bayley instead of telling the truth about Poussey following her death. 

How we left him: Caputo seems fundamentally changed by the events of the riot. He attempts to help Taystee during her trial and, knowing the truth about the cover-up of Piscatella’s death, is wrecked when she’s found guilty. He turns to teaching and becomes a volunteer at Litchfield, running a restorative justice program for the inmates. Through this program, he finally owns up to his own sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior toward CO Fischer (Lauren Lapkus) back in Season 2 and moves on from Litchfield. He also moves forward with Fig — the two decide to adopt a child together.

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Natalie Figueroa 

Title(s): Executive Assistant to the Warden; Interim Warden; Warden of the ICE Detention Center

How we found her: Fig is an ice queen who enjoys lording her power over administrators like Caputo — but he eventually becomes integral in exposing the embezzlement scam she has going with her state senator husband and she loses her job. Naturally, the two begin having lots of hate sex, as is tradition.

How we left her: Fig begins to soften up by the end of the series. While she isn’t thrilled about being pushed out as Warden of Litchfield and moved over to run the new ICE detention center, she isn’t about to leave, either. Plus, she and Caputo seem to really make a go of things — we last see them meeting the young girl they want to adopt.

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Tamika Ward 

Title(s): Corrections Officer, Warden

How we found her: We meet Tamika Ward in Season 6, as a corrections officer at Litchfield Maximum Security Prison — but there’s a twist: She was friends with Taystee on the outside. Tamika and Taystee worked together at Storky’s fast food restaurant for some time as teenagers and grew close. At Litchfield, she wants to help her old friend as much as possible, even if Taystee is less than receptive to it.

How we left her: At just 26, Tamika wants to prove she’s more than just a “diversity hire” as warden, and begins to implement changes throughout Litchfield, including getting rid of SHU and bolstering educational programs for the inmates. Unfortunately, multiple drug overdoses and evidence of contraband smuggling (mostly cell phones) plague her tenure and when her boss watches a chicken lay a bottle of fentanyl, Tamika knows her time is up. She did, however, successfully help Taystee get back on her feet by encouraging her to continue tutoring inmates — and that’s not nothing.