Keri Blakinger: She Was a Prisoner, Now She Reports on Prisons

At 17, Keri Blakinger was a top-level ice skater. But after her skating career fell apart, so did she. She ended up living on the streets shooting and selling heroin. In 2010, she was busted carrying a Tupperware full of it. Now, after two and a half years in prison, she lives in Houston and covers prisons herself as a top-level journalist for the Marshall Project.

Her memoir Corrections In Ink will be released June 7th. You can find it here: Corrections In Ink: A Memoir

Also, if you would like to purchase a copy to donate to a prisoner, you can find that link: Here!

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