OITNB: What Happens To Every Character (Series Finale Spoilers)
Aleida Diaz
Aleida Diaz
Daya's mother violates her parole when she attacks Eva's no-good, drug-dealing boyfriend. She is immediately sent back to Litchfield Max.
Alex Vause
Alex Vause
Piper's wife is transferred to an Ohio penitentiary, where she is reunited with a few familiar faces...
Cindy Hayes
Cindy Hayes
Cindy is released from prison and employed at a nursing home. Her family is nearly torn apart when Taystee sends Monica a letter revealing that Cindy, not Lillian, is her mother. In the aftermath of that familial bombshell, Cindy winds up on the street, albeit temporarily. The Hayes women eventually reconcile and attempt to move forward.
Dayanara 'Daya' Diaz
Dayanara "Daya" Diaz
The aspiring artist-turned-ruthless drug dealer is strangled (to death?) by her mom. Aleida refuses to let Daya bring any more of her daughters into the "family business" — even if that means killing her firstborn. UPDATE: Daya survives!
Dominga 'Daddy' Duarte
Dominga "Daddy" Duarte
Daya wants to teach her cheating girlfriend a lesson, so she gives her a bottle of prison pruno laced with a lethal dose of fentanyl. R.I.P.!
Frieda Berlin
Frieda Berlin
The paranoid inmate mostly keeps to herself and adopts a maximalist lifestyle. Basically, she collects trash.
Galina 'Red' Reznikov
Galina "Red" Reznikov
Red develops early on-set dementia following an extended stay in solitary confinement. She is relocated to B-Block — aka "Florida" — where she will serve out the remainder of her sentence, which was previously extended by 10 years. (Read recap.)
Gloria Mendoza
Gloria Mendoza
Her extended sentence is reversed, and she is released from prison. She is soon reunited with her sons, Benny and Julio, and her long-estranged daughter, Elena.
Rick Hopper, Greg Hellman
Rick Hopper and Greg Hellman
The head of the guards is caught in the act with Aleida and promptly fired. Meanwhile, the perverse, drug-pushing C.O. is installed as warden following Tamika's firing.
Joel Luschek
Joel Luschek
The C.O. admits to Ward that he smuggled cell phones into the prison, then lies and says that he forced Gloria to sell contraband to I.C.E. detainees so her sentence is not extended. He is promptly fired.
Linda Ferguson
Linda Ferguson
Once a garbage person, always a garbage person.
Lorna Morello Muccio
Lorna Morello and Vinny Muccio
The inmate enters a total state of denial, and later suffers a nervous breakdown, after newborn Sterling dies of pneumonia. Her husband, Vinny, also is heartbroken and overwhelmed by the severity of his wife's mental illness. The culmination of events cement his decision to end the marriage.
Maria Ruiz
Maria Ruiz
Gives Yadriel her blessing to move on. She's last seen in visitation, reading to her daughter, Peppa, with Yadriel's new girlfriend, Maria No. 2.
Marisol 'Flaca' Gonzales
Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales
Maritza's BFF continues to fight the good fight, using her position in the PolyCon kitchen to attempt to put I.C.E. detainees in touch with loved ones and legal counsel.
Maritza Ramos
Maritza Ramos
The parolee finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. She's swept up at a Brooklyn bar during a surprise I.C.E. raid, then later discovers she's not a U.S. citizen. She's deported to Colombia in Episode 5. (Read Diane Guerrero post mortem.)
Nicole 'Nicky' Nichols
Nicole "Nicky" Nichols
Red's "daughter" steps up and oversees the kitchen crew at PolyCon's I.C.E. detention center. It's unclear how much time she has left on her sentence, which was extended at least once during the series' run.
Tiffany 'Pennsatucky' Doggett
Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett
Taystee's student dies of an (accidental?) drug overdose and receives her GED posthumously.
Madison 'Badison' Murphy
Madison "Badison" Murphy
Ward has Season 6's main antagonist transferred to a Missouri penitentiary, and the entire viewing audience is grateful. Good riddance!
Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren
Suzanne Warren
The Inmate Formerly Known as "Crazy Eyes" gains a greater understanding of her unjust incarceration. In the finale, she partners with Taystee and assists with the financial literacy course.
Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson
Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson
She decides against taking her own life, then chooses to make the most of it. She partners with Judy King to create the Poussey Washington Fund, and establishes a financial literacy course for soon-to-be-released inmates. (Read what Danielle Brooks had to say about Episodes 4 and 12.)
Karla Cordova
Karla Córdova
The I.C.E. detainee loses custody of her two boys and is deported to El Salvador. She is left for dead upon attempted reentry; she breaks her ankle and can't go forward.
Blanca Flores
Blanca Flores and Diablo
She wins her case in criminal court and regains her permanent resident status. But she ultimately chooses to leave the U.S. altogether and fly to Honduras, where she can be with recently deported boyfriend Diablo.
George 'Pornstache' Mendez
George "Pornstache" Mendez
Something we never thought we'd see: Pornstache in full-on #DadMode. But here he is, banging on pots and pans with Daya and Bennett's daughter, Armaria. (The baby was adopted by Mendez's mom, Delia, back in Season 5.)
Piper Chapman
Piper Chapman
After Piper completes her probation, she moves out of Cal and Neri's apartment and into a place of her own. She's employed by Starbucks and enrolled in law school. And in the end, she chooses to be with Alex. (Sorry, Zelda!) As the series comes to a close, she makes the drive to Ohio to visit her wife in prison.
Larry Bloom, Polly Harper
Larry Bloom and Polly Harper
Piper's ex-fiancé and former BFF are expecting their first child together.
Sophia Burset
Sophia Burset
Burset follows her dreams and opens a hair salon, presumably with the $300,000 settlement from MCC.
Shani Abboud
Shani Abboud
Nicky's girlfriend is issued an order of removal and deported to Egypt.
Santos Chaj
Santos Chaj
The Guatemalan detainee, who was raped prior to her entry into the United States, is able to induce a medical abortion, thanks to Fig.
Tamika Ward
Tamika Ward
Taystee's friend proves to be in over her head. She is unable to keep the guards in check, and ultimately is fired.
Lolly Whitehill
Lolly Whitehill
The mentally ill prisoner is transferred to B-Block after PolyCon shuts down Litchfield's psych unit.
Judy King
Judy King
Before she helps jumpstart the Poussey Washington Fund, the Martha Stewart archetype pens a memoir about her time in prison and bakes cranberry bread with 50 Cent. Sound familiar?
Sam Healy
Sam Healy
He is employed at Siren Smoothie, where he was recently accused of inappropriate "shoulder squeezes" by a female coworker.
Scott O'Neill, Wanda Bell
Scott O'Neill and Wanda Bell
The onetime minimum-security guards are currently employed by PolyCon. They have a son named King at home.
Chicken
The Chicken
Yes, that chicken. The mythical, feral fowl (from the classic Season 1 episode "The Chickening") wreaks all sorts of havoc before Linda shuts down the coop.
Irene 'Zirconia' Cabrera
Irene "Zirconia" Cabrera
Pennsatucky's classmate receives her GED and enrolls in Taystee's financial literacy program. She soon will be released from Litchfield.
Litchfield Inmates
Leanne Taylor, Angie Rice, Janae Watson, Allison Abdullah, Kasey Sankey and Brooke Soso
These six former Lichfielders were transferred to the same, undisclosed prison.
Ohio Inmates
Carrie "Big Boo" Black, Anita DeMarco, Erica "Yoga" Jones, Norma Romano and Gina Murphy
Alex's fellow former Litchfielders were transferred to the Ohio facility at the end of Season 5.
Joe Caputo, Natalie 'Fig' Figueroa
Joe Caputo and Natalie "Fig" Figueroa
The onetime warden gets #MeToo'd by Susan Fischer and is forced to step down as instructor of Litchfield's restorative justice program. Meanwhile, Fig is removed as warden and installed as "I.C.E. queen." Together, the couple plans to adopt. They attend an adoption fair where they meet a young girl named Vanessa.
Artesian McCullough
Artesian McCullough
She comes clean to Ward about her feelings for Alex. Because Ward can't afford to fire another guard, she fulfills McCullough's request for Alex's transfer.
Mei Chang
Mei Chang
The Litchfield escapee is scooped up by Homeland Security and brought to the PolyCon detention facility.