From a very young age, Keri wanted to become a highly accomplished skater. In everything she did, Keri lived her life at full bore. It chronicles her journey from competitive figure skating star to a heroin addiction she couldn't kick to a stint in prison to, finally and perhaps most important, the news desk. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĬorrections in Inkis author Keri Blakinger's memoir. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. This is absolutely sensational.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Her self-awareness is bracing and her indictment of the prison industrial system raises searing questions around its punitive culture. correctional facilities’ vast failings, Blakinger resolutely notes how her “privilege” as a white woman enabled her to reclaim a life post-parole that many others aren’t afforded. Chronicling in unsparing prose the cruelties she suffered for nearly two years behind bars-where “you are nothing,” and “torture” prevails over “treatment”-Blakinger depicts the slow stripping away of her humanity, but she also writes of learning “how to steal joy in a place built to prevent it.” While her experience spurred her, after her release, to spend the next decade as a journalist reporting on U.S. Still, she was “a dean’s-list student at Cornell” and writing for the school’s newspaper when, in 2010, her felony conviction for heroin possession made national headlines. After experimenting with drugs during a high school summer program at Harvard, Blakinger spiraled into a nine-year heroin addiction, turning to petty crime and sex work to support her habit. When her figure skating partner left her in 2001, dashing their dreams of competing in the Olympics, 17-year-old Blakinger redirected her intensity on the ice toward self-destruction. A resonant call for criminal justice reform rings out from investigative journalist Blakinger’s extraordinary debut.
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