If you’re like me, you probably haven’t had a first-hand experience in a jail, let alone a state prison. Saying in the book that she doesn’t think she fully understands how damaging prison was even now, she acknowledges that her privileges - being a white woman, an Ivy League student with a fairly minor sentence - affected her overall incarceration experience. Sentenced to two years incarceration, Blakinger documented everyday experiences at the aforementioned correctional facilities while getting sober and learning how broken the system was from witnessing it firsthand, joking all the while with cellmates about calling it “IV League” - though that didn’t make the cut. Photo provided Keri Blakinger / Ilana Panich-LinsmanĪt 17, with an eating disorder in full swing and an ice skating career that ended abruptly with her pairs partner leaving her, Blakinger fell into drugs - using, selling, and eventually getting arrested with six ounces of heroin in a Tupperware during an icy Ithaca winter during her senior year at Cornell University, while she was working at the Cornell Daily Sun.
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