Keri Blakinger is a journalist and the author of the Corrections in Ink, a memoir tracing her path from figure skating to heroin addiction to prison and, finally, to life as an investigative reporter covering mass incarceration. Purchase a copy to be donated to a prisoner here.

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Follow Keri’s reporting at The LA Times or on Twitter. Contact her at keriblakinger[at]gmail[dot]com.