Gabfest Reads: Corrections in Ink

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Emily Bazelon talks with author Keri Blakinger about her new memoir, Corrections in Ink which recounts Blakinger’s path from Olympic ambitions, to heroin addiction, to prison, and ultimately a return to life on the outside. Blakinger launched a program to deliver her memoir to currently incarcerated readers. You can learn more here: https://800ceoread.com/coupons/redeem/donationcorrectionsinink Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:09.0	Hello and welcome to GabFest Reads for the Month of June, with one of my favorite journalists.
0:21.4	Carrie Blakeinger.
0:22.4	Carrie Blakeinger is an investigative reporter.
0:24.9	She is based in Texas.
0:31.7	She covers criminal justice and injustice for the Marshall project.
0:31.2	And she has a bunch of awards and accolades.
0:34.6	I noticed Carrie's work several years ago when she was just doing kickass reporting in
0:40.6	Texas for the Houston Chronicle.
0:43.3	And really covering prisons in this kind of inside, outside way that was really unusual.
0:49.7	And what I didn't realize at the time is that Carrie has herself spent time in prison
0:53.9	in New York State for drug crimes.
0:57.0	And that's mostly the subject or at least partly the subject of her fabulous new memoir,
1:02.4	which is called Corrections in Inc.
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