![]() “By the start of what should have been my senior year of high school, I was living on the street and doing sex work and addicted to heroin. And, you know, I ended up getting into hard drugs pretty quickly,” Blakinger recalled. “After my skating career fell apart, I very quickly got into drugs. Her skating career abruptly ended in her junior year of high school, and Blakinger describes the next nine years of her life as a blur of drugs, darkness and near-death. ![]() But the intensity of the world surrounding figure skating – including a culture of eating disorders, hours of grueling practices, and the constant pressure of being replaced by other women in the sport – took a toll on Blakinger’s mental and physical well-being. In her new memoir, “Corrections in Ink,” Blakinger delves into her journey, starting with a successful adolescent figure skating career that abruptly ends, leading her into a spiral of heroin addiction.īlakinger’s memoir details an early childhood and adolescence focused around competitive figure skating, in which she eventually competed at nationals twice in the pairs category. ![]() Blakinger’s ability to get an insider’s perspective stems from the fact that she once served nearly two years in prison herself, for a drug crime in New York state. ![]() As a frequent guest on Texas Standard, Texas-based journalist Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Project has shared details of many of her stories and investigations into the state’s prison and jail system. ![]()
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