Keri also included a bit of comic relief that made this memoir a bit easier to read amid the heavy subject matter.⁣ It was easy for me to imagine myself in her shoes, facing the same challenges. Keri writes in a way that exposes raw emotion and immerses you in her story. ⁣Ĭorrections in Ink really struck a cord with me, and I can barely talk about it without tearing up.

When I read the inside flap, I realized that Keri attended Cornell at the same time as me… and that I recall events and news coverage of the events described within. I won this book as a Goodreads giveaway without knowing much about it. Book ReviewĬorrections in Ink is a memoir that struck close to home but not for the reasons you may think.

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. Written with searing intensity, unflinching honesty, and shocks of humor, Corrections in Ink uncovers that dark, brutal system that affects us all. As the days ticked by, Keri came to understand how broken the justice system is and who that brokenness hurts the most.Īfter 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. Along the way, she met women from all walks of life―who were all struggling through the same upside-down world of corrections. 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. Her arrest made the front page of the local news and landed her behind bars for nearly two years. Then, on a cold day during her senior year, the police caught her walking down the street with a Tupperware full of heroin. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice.įor 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. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals.

Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Corrections in Ink is a memoir about a young woman’s journey – from the ice rink to addiction and prison to the newsroom – and how she emerged with determination to expose the broken criminal (in)justice system.⁣ Publisher’s Synopsis

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