Linda from Purchasing heard about the guard's death too, and even the incompetent prison system will surely eventually realise she isn't an inmate?

Even if the outside did know about Maureen, Daya would probably still be facing decades or life.

No parole in the federal system either. In theory Daya could even face the death penalty, but life without parole is more likely.

And is facing life without parole or death for murder of a federal prison guard - so she's basically screwed regardless of the desperate advice her mum tried to give.

8) I hope Alex doesn't get life without parole or end up on federal Death Row for murder of a prison guard too.

What happen to Humphrey has also essentially doomed Daya. She was likely very screwed even if Humphrey survived, but now life without parole is probably the best she can hope for - no one except Suzanne knows that Maureen actually killed Humphrey.

Also seemingly forgotten when Piper reassures Alex that New York doesn't have a death penalty.

Didn't they forget it was a federal prison in a some of the characters' backstories too? Some of them only seem to have committed state offences.

And why didn't the SWAT team enter the prison that way, for that matter?

Alex is also at risk of life without parole surely too given what Linda overheard? When she eventually gets out of prison.

I guess realistically Daya will get life without parole (there's no parole in the federal system) for murder of a federal prison guard, or even face the death penalty - as Piper correctly says, New York doesn't have a death penalty, but federal law does and presumably applies here, even if the guard is privatised?

They do seem to have rather forgotten that Litchfield is meant to be a prison for inmates convicted of federal crimes in a lot of the backstories.

Using the excuse their families might kill him after. Yes a vile piece of work.

I think Jackson has rather rose tinted views of race relations in Britain a couple of centuries ago.