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

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

Texas Take · Houston Chronicle

July 23, 202232m 47s

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Howdy Texas Take listeners, please enjoy this bonus episode by Lisa Gray and her team at City Cast Houston. This episode was originally published June 6, 2022. Fear not, Scott and Jeremy will be back next week.

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 was released June 7th.

 

 

 

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