<P> Aleida Diaz (played by Elizabeth Rodriguez)--Daya's mother . She was incarcerated for helping her boyfriend Cesar with his drug dealing business and taking the blame for him . In flashbacks, it is shown that she had little concern for her children and was obsessed with her boyfriend . She says during a visitation that she is upset that he won't visit her . She treats Daya rudely in the prison, and goes so far as to attempt to seduce Bennett to make Daya angry . She later shows a softer side and advises Daya to have her baby, even going so far as to concoct a plan to allow Bennett to keep his job . She also finds herself competing with Gloria to care for Daya during the more difficult times of her pregnancy, finally forcing her to take on a maternal role in her daughter's life . She has high status among the other Hispanic inmates . During the second season, she battles with Gloria to be a mother to Daya, and manipulates Bennett to bring in contraband from the outside hidden in his prosthetic leg . During the third season, she attempts to convince Daya to give her unborn child to Pornstache's mother Delia so that she would have a better life and to get a monthly payment from her . Later, she decides that it would be better for Daya to keep her baby and tells Delia that Daya's baby died during childbirth while in reality Cesar picked up the child . Despite this, her cruel and vindictive side is shown when she spreads deliberately untrue and transphobic rumors about Sophia to the other inmates in response to a fight between her and Gloria, resulting in Sophia being attacked by the other inmates, something which weighs heavily on Gloria's conscience . During the fourth season, Aleida is informed that she is eligible for parole and she asks Gloria to watch over Daya after her release . After she is released, she is picked up by Cesar's girlfriend Margarita . While in a restaurant, Margarita tells her that Cesar got her pregnant, and after becoming upset at the revelation, she yells at a man she believes was profiling her . She gets into an argument with Margarita in a clothing store after finding out that she wasn't planning to stay faithful to Cesar while he was in prison, and walks out on her . Later that day, after finding out that her cousin Jazmina spent her money sock on bail and an ER visit, she goes back to Margarita's apartment and states that she has nowhere else to go . At the end of the season, she is watching the press conference announcing the death of an inmate with Margarita, and becomes concerned for Daya's well being since Caputo didn't mention the deceased inmate's name on the air . </P> <P> Poussey Washington (played by Samira Wiley)--An often good - natured and joking inmate, who is best friends with Taystee . During the first season finale, she is revealed to have a great singing voice, and performs an improvised rendition of Amazing Grace . Flashbacks during the second season reveal that she is a military brat, and that her father, who was an officer in the United States Army, would often move her family across the world for assignments . While her father was stationed in Germany, she had a sexual relationship with the daughter of one of her father's German superior officers . When the relationship was discovered, it was implied that the German officer had her father reassigned to a post in the United States . This led to Poussey trying to kill him before being stopped by her father, who subsequently defended her homosexuality from him . In the present, it is implied that she is in love with Taystee, who does not return her feelings on account of being straight, but does make an effort to be gentle with her about this . After failing to get her to market her moonshine, Vee begins to antagonize Poussey, mostly out of jealousy of her closeness to Taystee, and partly out of implied homophobia . She separates Poussey and Taystee, causing a rift in their relationship . </P> <P> She is one of the few black inmates not to fall for Vee's charms, and begins a long campaign to fight her throughout the season . Vee's numerous efforts to force her to back down, including gentle coaxing, threats and even a violent beating from Suzanne are unsuccessful . Eventually, Poussey causes irreparable damage to Vee's tobacco business by smashing up an entire batch of tobacco and pouring bleach on it, and Vee, realizing that no amount of intimidation will stop her, and killing her would be an overreaction, decides to remove her reason for fighting her by ejecting Taystee from the gang . The two later make up after a physical fight in the library, and work together to turn the other black inmates against Vee . In the third season, she has become obsessed with trying to discover who was stealing her moonshine and starts to set traps to catch what she believed was a squirrel stealing it . Feeling depressed, lonely and in need of a girlfriend, she joins Norma's "cult," although she later ends up leaving when she becomes unsatisfied with them . While in the library to help herself to some of her hooch, she discovers Brook passed out from a drug overdose . Realizing that Brook will be taken to psych if the truth is known, she takes the foils and gets Taystee and Suzanne instead of the CO's . On Taystee's recommendation, they induce vomiting to purge the medication and try to keep Brook from falling asleep at breakfast the next morning . Once Brook has recovered, the African American gang welcomes her into their circle of friends . Poussey later confronts Norma's cult for the way they treated Brook, and threatens Leanne . </P> <P> During the fourth season, her relationship with Brook becomes romantic and she becomes excited at the prospect of meeting Judy King, the cooking show host that was sent to Litchfield for tax fraud she was a big fan of . After several awkward moments between her and Judy, she finally sits down with her in the cafeteria due to Brook arranging a meeting with her, only to discover that, in describing her to Judy, Brook had made numerous racist assumptions about her, which demonstrates how little they actually know about each other . Eventually, she accepts Brook's apology, and the two begin anew, and before too long, it becomes clear that they have fallen in love . She later finds herself helping Judy after her friends were angry about a racist puppet show that Judy filmed in the 80s, that ended up being leaked on YouTube . Judy later offers Poussey a job once she gets out of prison, ensuring she will have something to look forward to . During a protest in the cafeteria, Poussey is caught in a scuffle with Officer Bayley, who tries to restrain her while fighting off an erratic Suzanne by pressing her into the ground and putting his knee over her . Unable to breathe in this position, Poussey dies of asphyxiation, shocking the other inmates and leaving Bayley traumatized . Due to MCC trying to remove liability from the company for her death, they ordered Caputo not to call the police until they could find a way to make Poussey look like she was at fault, before deciding to switch blame to Bayley and portray him as a rogue guard when they had difficulty conjuring up such an image of her, as she came from a respectable family, her charge was for a non-violent offense, and she was a model inmate . As a result, her body stays in the cafeteria overnight and is not removed until the following afternoon . </P>

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