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Keri Blakinger on Growing Through A Prison Sentence

Grow Through It: Legal Issues, Incarceration Keri Blakinger, author of Corrections in Ink, describes growing up as a competitive figure skater. When her skating career fell apart, she fell apart. She struggled with addiction for almost a decade, doing heroin, sex work, and living on the stree... Read More »

Tracey Syphax on Growing Through Incarceration

Grow Through It: Legal Issues, Incarceration Tracey Syphax, serial entrepreneur and author of From the Block to the Boardroom, describes a childhood filled with traumatic experiences that led to drug use, stealing cars, drug dealing, getting shot, and spending 7 years in prison. He turned his... Read More »

Chris Wilson on Growing Through a Life Sentence

Grow Through It: Legal Issues/Incarceration Chris Wilson, author of The Master Plan, used hard work and a master plan to turn his life sentence in prison to a second chance at life. He grew through it with the help of a strong support system, by taking responsibility for his mistakes, and... Read More »