From Prison to the Newsroom: Keri Blakinger, Formerly Incarcerated Reporter, on Her New Memoir & More
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In an extended, in-depth interview, we speak with criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger about her “epic” new memoir, “Corrections in Ink.”
In an extended, in-depth interview we speak with investigative journalist Keri Blakinger about her “epic” new memoir, “Corrections in Ink,” and her path from aspiring professional figure skater to prison after she was arrested in her final semester of her senior year at Cornell University with six ounces of heroin. Blakinger went on to become an investigative journalist and now works at The Marshall Project, where she is the organization’s first formerly incarcerated reporter.