At the end of the season. Raids the prison to end the riot and remove all inmates from the facility.
During this raid, a correctional officer is fatally wounded by a corrupt "strike team", which then conspires to blame the guard's death on a number of inmates who hid in an underground bunker, found by one inmate, and had taken the guard hostage. All inmates are transported to other prisons. The consequences of the riot are shown in the sixth season. A number of the inmates, including Chapman and Vause, are transported to Litchfield Maximum Security. Most of these inmates are interrogated, and several of them charged and sentenced for their involvement in the riot.
Inmates who arrived from the minimum security prison are either caught up or willingly participate in the war between prison blocks. The season portrays further corruption and guard brutality. The seventh season provides an ending to various inmates' stories. Chapman and Vause continue their on/off again relationship. The season shows how some prisoners are able to move beyond their time in prison while others are captured by the system and through their own flaws and/or systemic problems in the structure of US society and its justice system are unable to progress.
In addition to the established setting of Litchfield Max, a significant portion of the season takes place in a newly created. Detention center for detained presumed illegal immigrants, showing their struggles and lack of access to outside help in large part because of complete or extreme disregard of the law. Throughout the series, it is shown how various forms of corruption, funding cuts by the corporate owner to increase profit by millions. Overcrowding, guard brutality, and racial discrimination (among other issues) affect the prisoners' safety, health, and well-being; the correctional officers' lives; and the prison's basic inability to fulfill its fundamental legal responsibilities and ethical obligations as a corrections institution. One of the show's key conflicts involves the minimum-security prison's Director of Human Activities aka. The warden, under privatization nomenclature, Joe Caputo, whose efforts and aims as a. Constantly conflict with the corporate interests of MCC, which acquires Litchfield Penitentiary as it risks closure.This theme is continued when a new forward-thinking and caring warden is hired at Litchfield Maximum Security and, unlike Caputo, actually institutes educational programs and positive changes. She is fired for these actions and her attitude toward the corporate corruption, although her short-lived changes have profound results.