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Author's Note - Chapter 5

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Blakinger, Keri. Corrections in Ink. St. Martin’s Press, 2022. Hardcover.

· In the Author’s Note, Blakinger writes that the book is a memoir.

· It is drawn from her experiences and what she remembers as well as from letters and journal entries.

· Some names and identifying details of people she met behind bars—staff and most prisoners—have been changed.

· She used the real names of people who are dead and the real names of prisoners she met when she worked as a reporter after her release.

· As requested, she has used the real names of Stacy Burnett and her pet chicken.

· In Chapter 5, “Ithaca, 2010,” Blakinger had problems.

· She was out of clean clothes, could not find her glasses, her English paper was late, and her pockets were not big enough for...

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