Keri Lynn Blakinger (born June 15, 1984) is an American journalist and author. She is an investigative reporter for The Marshall Project, where she covers criminal justice. As a child, she competed as a figure skater at regional and national levels, first in singles and then in pair skating with Mark Ladwig.

2022年5月31日 · Fun fact: I got married *and divorced* in the same county jail stay, which the sergeant at the time told me was a record. Go… me? I do not have a tweet thread for this, but here is a TikTok instead. https://t.co/HVG86gGkXi" / Twitter. THREAD: My book comes out ONE WEEK from today.

2020年9月9日 · Blakinger grew up in Amish country in Pennsylvania, where her father, Dan, was a partner at a prominent law firm and her mother, Cindy, worked as a public school teacher.

Keri Blakinger is a former staff writer whose work focuses on prisons and jails. She previously covered criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, VICE, the New York Daily News and The New York Times.

32K Followers, 1,712 Following, 1,013 Posts - Keri Blakinger (@keriblakinger) on Instagram: "Reporter @latimes Memoir w/ @stmartinspress spring 2022"

Keri Blakinger is a journalist and the author of the Corrections in Ink, a memoir tracing her path from figure skating to heroin addiction to prison and, finally, to life as an investigative reporter covering mass incarceration.

2022年6月10日 · 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. One of the first people I met in jail was a foul-mouthed pagan lesbian named Susan. I …

2023年6月7日 · Blakinger shares moving and horrific stories about those with whom she served time, including one woman whose cell was trashed for hours on end by a guard who claimed he was investigating a tip...

2025年2月12日 · Keri Blakinger covers the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2023, she spent nearly seven years in Texas, first covering criminal justice for the...

In the “upside down” of prison, she met women from all walks of life – women who would change her forever. Two years later, Keri walked out sober and with a second chance—an opportunity shaped by privilege she realized so many people behind bars did not have.