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The ‘Foul-Mouthed Pagan Lesbian’ Who Inspired My Jail Memoir

Keri Blakinger’s new book, “Corrections in Ink,” began with Susan Begg, an older woman the author met on her second day in jail. If only Susan had lived to see it in print.

Life Inside • 06.10.2022

A Tupperware of Heroin, Or How I Ended Up in Prison

In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘Corrections in Ink,’ Keri Blakinger puts us at the scene of her drug arrest — and her path to becoming The Marshall Project’s first formerly incarcerated staff writer.

Feature • 06.07.2022

Burned to Death in a Prison Cell

After years of warnings about broken fire alarms, two men have now died in blazes at Texas prisons.

Feature • 05.09.2022

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