Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
From the publisher's website:
Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Growing up, that
meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an
all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. But when her skating
career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with
the intensity she once saved for the ice.
For the next nine
years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the
streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all
while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at
Cornell. Then, on a cold day during her senior year, the police caught
her walking down the street with a Tupperware full of heroin.
Her
arrest made the front page of the local news and landed her behind bars
for nearly two years. There, in the Twilight Zone of New York’s jails
and prisons, Keri grappled with the wreckage of her missteps and
mistakes as she sobered up and searched for a better path. Along the
way, she met women from all walks of life—who were all struggling
through the same upside-down world of corrections. As the days ticked
by, Keri came to understand how broken the justice system is and who
that brokenness hurts the most.
After she walked out of her cell
for the last time, Keri became a reporter dedicated to exposing our
flawed prisons as only an insider could. Written with searing intensity,
unflinching honesty, and shocks of humor, Corrections in Ink
uncovers that dark, brutal system that affects us all. Not just a story
about getting out and getting off drugs, this galvanizing memoir is
about the power of second chances; about who our society throws away and
who we allow to reach for redemption—and how they reach for it.
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