Keri Blakinger on her arrest for heroin possession to becoming a journalist
Keri Blakinger is the author of Corrections in Ink and an award-winning journalist at The Marshall Project. As a student at Cornell University in 2010, Keri was arrested in Ithaca for possession of heroin. She was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, after which she became an award-winning journalist who covers death row in the Texas prison system. Keri describes what it felt like to see her book on the shelf at The Harvard Coop Bookstore, where as an unhoused person she used to steal books in order to fund her heroin addiction. Keri tells Gabe why she didn't make more TikToks on book tour, why she's happy for Hunter Biden, and the uplifting story of her dog, Charlotte, who now lives on in the pages of Wikipedia.
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