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Having returned to complete her degree, reporter Keri Blakinger \u201911, BA \u201914, now covers the prison system for the Marshall Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Linda Copman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December of her senior year\u2014just a few credits shy of graduation\u2014Keri Blakinger \u201911, BA \u201914, was arrested on Stewart Avenue with six ounces of heroin in a Tupperware container. She\u2019d ultimately plead guilty to criminal possession of a controlled substance and spend the next 21 months behind bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following her release, Blakinger\u2014who had long struggled with drug use\u2014returned to the Hill and completed her degree in English. She has since gone on to a career in journalism, covering the prison system she experienced first-hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI approach reporting with an assumption that people in prison are people, <\/em>with their own stories and truths and need for dignity,\u201d she says. \u201cI was one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blakinger chronicles her experiences, in unsparing detail and with utter candor, in her new memoir, Corrections in Ink<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I told my story\u2014on my own terms\u2014then no one could use it against me,\u201d she writes. \u201cI would own it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The book has gotten rave reviews\u2014including in the New York Times<\/em>, which called it a \u201cbrave, brutal memoir\u201d and a \u201criveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption.\u201d In a blurb, Piper Kerman, author of the bestselling prison memoir Orange Is the New Black<\/em>, lauds it as \u201ca testament to where a woman can go after rock-bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Kirkus<\/em>: \u201cBlakinger\u2019s voice is frank but compassionate, as she lovingly but truthfully owns up to her mistakes. Her deeply researched analysis of the dehumanizing nature of incarceration is trenchant and infused with the passion of her personal experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Blakinger describes in the book, for much of her youth she struggled with mental health issues, including self-harm, disordered eating, and a suicide attempt\u2014but she also competed in figure skating at a national level and was a gifted student who earned admission to Cornell, matriculating in January 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I told my story\u2014on my own terms\u2014then no one could use it against me. I would own it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

By that time, she\u2019d been using drugs off and on for six years; she had sold drugs and sex to maintain her habit, and experienced bouts of homelessness. Blakinger did a two-week detox before moving to Ithaca\u2014arriving, she says, \u201cin the dead of winter, with no friends, and fresh off drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her sobriety would not last long. She fell into a deepening spiral that culminated in her arrest, which was covered in local (and even national) media, including the Daily Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her time behind bars was frightening and dehumanizing\u2014and it convinced her that the institution itself is fundamentally flawed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLocking hundreds of traumatized and damaged women in together and threatening them constantly with additional punishments is not rehabilitation,\u201d she writes. \u201cIt is not corrections. It is not public safety. It is systemic failure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blakinger vividly recalls the moment she fully comprehended that the staff who controlled her life and those of her fellow inmates had no accountability to the outside world: in northern New York\u2019s Albion Correctional Facility, she overheard two guards talking about a woman in solitary confinement whose water had been shut off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blakinger was a nationally competitive figure skater as a teen. (Photo by David Harvath)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cShe can drink out of the toilet,\u201d Blakinger recalls one saying. \u201cIf it\u2019s good enough for my dog, it\u2019s good enough for her.\u201d As she writes: \u201cThat is when I realized: Behind bars, there are no rules.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After her release, Blakinger\u2014then in her late 20s\u2014was determined to stay sober. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat I did right was to set a really low bar,\u201d she observes, \u201cand just try to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She moved to Newark Valley, a rural community between Ithaca and Binghamton, and took whatever writing gigs she could find on Craigslist\u2014including articles on locksmithing and trivia for a Korean website.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When her three-year suspension from the University ended in 2013, Blakinger received permission to finish her degree. Her first course: an online class on prisons, taught by longtime faculty member Mary Fainsod Katzenstein\u2014who notes that Blakinger had already read half of the required books before the first meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had heard her story and knew she had done jail time, so I anticipated that she would be able to bring real-life experience to class discussions,\u201d recalls Katzenstein, now the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies, Emerita. \u201cWhat was soon apparent was that she also came with total grit and smarts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since graduating, Blakinger has worked as a reporter for the Ithaca Times<\/em>, the New York Daily News<\/em> (where she interviewed prisoners at Rikers Island), and the Houston Chronicle<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several years ago, she helped publicize the fact that inmates in Texas prisons were not eligible for dentures\u2014meaning that some were forced to eat with few or no teeth. (Her work prompted the state to purchase a 3D printer capable of making them on-site, believed to be a first<\/a> for any prison in the U.S.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blakinger interviews an inmate in a Texas prison who received dentures as a result of her reporting. (Photo by Daniel Litke)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blakinger is currently writing for the Marshall Project<\/a>, a nonprofit that reports on criminal justice issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has covered such topics as the impact of COVID-19 on inmates; the negative effects of rules against hiring ex-convicts (which can drive them back to prison for lack of gainful employment); and how horrific experiences in state-run juvenile institutions increases the likelihood that former inmates will commit violent crimes\u2014and wind up on death row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work also includes compiling a national database of books that are banned in prisons\u2014from New York State (which has no official list) to Texas (over 9,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Katzenstein: \u201cHer reporting\u2014from some of the most challenging environments, including death row\u2014is penetrating, discerning, and written with her often wry wit. It comes from a place of deep human empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her reporting is penetrating, discerning, and written with her often wry wit.<\/p>Mary Fainsod Katzenstein<\/strong>, professor emerita<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Blakinger credits faculty members like Katzenstein (and her academic advisor, senior lecturer Lynda Bogel, now retired) for seeing her as a human being who struggled with addiction\u2014not as \u201ca bad person, a failure, or a dirty junkie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while Blakinger acknowledges that her own determination was key to turning her life around, she\u2019s also well aware that she has had many advantages\u2014including, as a white woman from an affluent family, the privileges of race and class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI always worry it\u2019s too easy for people to look at my story and think I\u2019m proof that anyone who does time should be able to come out and thrive,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wish everyone who did time could have the opportunities I\u2019ve had, but they don\u2019t. When people succeed, it\u2019s often in spite of the system\u2014and not because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top image: Photo by Ilana Panich-Linsman<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published July 19, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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