Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Corrections in Ink
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🗓️ 26 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
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
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:03.0 | Gapst |
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| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to Gabbfest reads |
| 0:17.0 | for the month of June with one of my favorite journalists, Carrie Blakinger. |
| 0:22.1 | Carrie Blakinger is an investigative reporter. She is based in Texas. She covers criminal |
| 0:27.6 | justice and injustice for the Marshall Project. And she has a bunch of awards and accolades. |
| 0:34.7 | I noticed Carrie's work several years ago when she was just doing |
| 0:38.5 | kick-ass reporting in Texas for the Houston Chronicle and really covering prisons in this |
| 0:45.6 | kind of inside-outside way that was really unusual. And what I didn't realize at the time is |
| 0:51.2 | that Carrie has herself spent time in prison in New York State for |
| 0:55.2 | drug crimes. And that's mostly the subject, or at least partly the subject of her fabulous new |
| 1:01.8 | memoir, which is called Corrections in Inc. And which we're going to be talking about today. Hey, Carrie, |
| 1:06.8 | how are you? I'm good. Thanks for having me. Oh, I'm so glad you're here. Congratulations on this terrific book. Thank you. I kept joking that the title sounded like it might be a tattoo memoir, so I was just going to need to spend a whole bunch of the money on tattoos, and I'm sorry that listeners can't see me, but I will just say that I did that, and I have many tattoos as a result of this whole thing. I thought that you already had many tattoos. No, it's funny. People assume this and people used to, you know, make jokes about like, I have as many whatever as you have tattoos. And I actually didn't. I had a few small ones, but I got a full sleeve and I got most of my leg done also after I finished the book. |
| 1:45.3 | Well, the reason I thought that was that when we had lunch, I noticed that you had tattoos, |
| 1:49.2 | but maybe those are like post-book tattoos. |
| 1:51.7 | That is what we call corrections in ink. |
| 1:55.7 | Fair enough. Okay. I want to start just by reading a couple of lines from your book. You say at one point, jail is its own kingdom. Okay. I want to start just by reading a couple of lines from your book. You say at one point, jail is its own kingdom. The basic rules of engagement do not apply here. And I think so much of what is helpful and fascinating about this book is the way in which you back up that kind of thesis that you have. But I want to start |
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