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Keri Blakinger

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Reporter @propublica. Fellow @newamerica. Priors: @marshallproj @latimes @HoustonChron. Author: Corrections in Ink. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)

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1May 8, '22Are we still calling it Mother's Day or is it now just Domestic Infant Supplier Day?124×0146k25k799
2Jan 12, '23I just found out one of my sources got killed. I'm sad, but I'm not gonna wax poetic about how he was a good guy. I’m not sure he was. But he was a great example of how broken the 61.6×2M8.2k1.3k731
3Nov 8, '20If Hunter Biden ever worried that his struggle with addiction would derail his dad's career, I hope he goes to bed tonight knowing that in the end it did not. I don't mean that as 54.6×074k6.2k244
4Jul 23, '23In February, a trans man named Emmett Brock flipped off an LA sheriff’s deputy as he drove by. The deputy then tailed him but didn’t pull him over - for an air freshener hanging fr41.9×1.4M5.2k1.7k590
5Jan 14, '23THIS is one of the most shocking jail lawsuits I've seen: An mentally ill man with an IQ of 55 who was being held on $1000 bail literally *starved to death* in an Arkansas jail. Th34.5×1.1M7k2.8k455
6Feb 17, '21NO THE FUCK WE ARE NOT.30×037k5.7k111
7Feb 2, '23For my first story @latimes, I went to Mexico and got drugs. Specifically, @ConnorASheets and I went to pharmacies, got pills & tested them. Turns out, some are selling oxy &am28×930k3.1k1.2k367
8Dec 20, '22So, as they say, ~personal~ news: I am leaving Texas next month, to join the @latimes. I'll be covering the LA Sheriff's Dept, jail & related shenanigans. LA folks: Now is the 26.9×894k5.6k35538
9Oct 21, '25absolutely heartbreaking25.5×845k2.4k523849
10Nov 10, '23The last words of Brent Brewer, who was executed tonight in Texas.24.5×812k3.8k540198
11Oct 7, '21Remember the Texas prisoner who sued for a cotton blanket because he was allergic to the prison's blankets and officials refused to give him a cotton one instead? I got records sho20.5×021k5k407
12Jun 24, '23Earlier this year a former inmate came to me w/a USB drive of surveillance videos another inmate had picked out of the trash at Men's Central Jail & sold to him for $50 of dope20×665k2k786355
13Jan 6, '21They protected Confederate statues better than the actual Capitol.16.1×018k4k65
14Oct 2, '22It's wild what prisoners ACTUALLY do w/contraband phones vs. what prisons fear they'll do. I just talked to a guy who's using his to teach other guys computer science "We’re using 14.8×018k2.3k803
15Mar 17, '22NEW: A Scottish court has refused to extradite a man to America — entirely because he would have gone to Texas, and the judge decided Texas prison conditions violate international 12.4×011k3.4k693
16Dec 21, '22HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED what books are banned in your state's prison system? After a YEAR of records request, today we @MarshallProj published a searchable database of all the banne12.4×410k1.7k899297
17Nov 9, '20At one Texas prison nearly 6% OF THE POPULATION has died of COVID-19. Not 6% of the covid patients died, but 6% of the entire prison population. That's according to a fabulous new 10.1×06.2k3.6k431
18May 2, '24The Los Angeles public defenders' union called the UCLA arrests "shameful and a complete failure of leadership" and said it is ready to "represent every person facing charges."8.3×277k8.5k2.1k262
19Aug 18, '24When I interviewed David Ford in 2018, he was in prison & had no teeth - but TDCJ wouldn't give him dentures. Then my story came out & they did. I promised him that when he6.8×224k3.4k36262
20Sep 2, '23Absolutely wrecked and sobbing at this beautiful heartbreaking essay6.4×214k1.3k278600
21Aug 31, '23When I was IN solitary 12 years ago, I thought no one knew or cared what we went through - certainly not national media. I never could have imagined I'd get out and write about it 6.1×202k1.6k25437
22Aug 22, '22Every time I see one of these police brutality videos I think about all the brutality behind bars that we will never know - or never prove - because there isn’t cell phone footage.5.7×07.1k1k31
23Jan 14, '22This headline makes me sad for journalism.5.7×07.8k45084
24May 27, '21Remember last year when Texas prisoner sued for soap and social distancing? I got back records today showing how much the state spent fighting that lawsuit, and to avoid being forc5.3×03.9k2.1k115
25Oct 12, '22UPDATE on Alabama prisons: this was the entirety of what grown men were served yesterday at one of the prisons where they’re still on strike. This was breakfast. And dinner. And th5.2×04.6k1.5k92
26Feb 29, '24The last words of Ivan Cantu, executed tonight in Texas: "I don’t think that this situation here will bring you closure, if it does. If this is what it takes or have any reservatio5.1×171k1.4k386110
27Sep 25, '24This is remarkable: A Houston jury just found disgraced former cop Gerald Goines guilty of felony murder because police shot and killed a married couple while carrying out a search5.1×168k2k370105
28Aug 24, '18#BREAKING Texas prison system just voted to drastically slash the cost of inmate phone calls - the new contract will be 6 cents per minute instead of 26 cents.5.0×05.4k1.2k10
29Sep 13, '24This is the entirety of an email I just got from a lawyer. 10/10 no notes.5.0×165k3.2k170154
31Mar 21, '24This is Emmett Brock. Last year an LA sheriff's deputy beat him on camera, claiming Emmett bit him. Emmett - a 23 yo teacher - was arrested & lost his job. Now, a judge says th4.7×157k3k635131
33Sep 18, '21THREAD: When I got arrested, a woman I met my first day in jail told me I should take notes on everything and someday write a book. A decade later, I FINALLY have – and now you can4.5×04.5k672469
34Apr 4, '19A Texas prisoner was allergic to his blanket, and it made him break out into sores. He asked for a new blanket. For 10 YEARS, officials refused. So he sued. The prison system fough4.4×03.2k1.6k69
35Aug 25, '23Since we are all thinking about carceral conditions in Georgia today, here’s breakfast, lunch and dinner from a state prison there. In case you were wondering what incarceration is4.0×134k1.2k37926
37Mar 11, '20While I was at death row today I asked the men their thoughts on coronavirus. They're not worried for themselves, they said - they're worried for their lawyers, some of whom have b3.7×04.6k62740
38Feb 17, '21THREAD: Wondering how things are going in Texas prisons right now? 33 units are on generator power, guards say they’re being kept “hostage” and prisoners are eating THIS. This is c3.7×02.6k1.5k70
39Jan 9, '21"A brilliant & frequent advocate before the U.S. Supr. Crt & a former Tx solicitor general, Cruz knew exactly what he was doing, what he was risking & who he was inciti3.4×03.7k75519
40Jan 7, '21Phrases like "I missed the Zoom call because of the coup" do not represent the kind of energy I hoped for in 2021.3.3×04.7k34326
41Aug 25, '22A few days ago, NPR reported that only 17 out of the 11,000 federal prisoners released on home confinement under CARES were arrested for new crimes. Today I asked BOP what those cr3.3×02.9k926194
42Nov 14, '20So many people in El Paso have died of covid that the morgues are overflowing and have begun using jail labor to move bodies.3.1×01.6k1.2k74
43Dec 20, '19Nine years ago today I stopped doing heroin. That means I have now finally been off drugs for as long as I was on them.3.1×04.6k506
45Aug 29, '19FIFTY. DOLLARS.3.0×02.8k94218
46Jun 22, '22I just went to the bookstore I used to steal from to buy heroin 20 yrs ago when I was homeless and THEY HAVE MY BOOK so ofc I panicked & bought a copy and then sobbed in the al2.9×04.1k18452
47Oct 4, '23The best TV info graphic I have ever seen in my life:2.9×95k2.1k26122
48Sep 29, '20#BREAKING Remember those prisoners who sued the Texas prison system's Pack Unit for its bad handling of covid? THEY WON.2.8×02.8k80745
50May 30, '20This video - apparently showing a police officer coming up behind a woman standing there with a sign trampling her with his horse - is a stark contrast to so much of the media cove2.6×02k99263
51Jul 25, '22I just got a call from a Texas prison guard who wanted to tell me she’s worried - about how hot it it for the prisoners. “It’s inhumane,” she said. Bc of understaffing they’re not 2.6×02.5k74536
52Oct 21, '18A few months ago, someone slipped me a copy of a grievance against a Harris County judge. I started digging, went down a data rabbit hole & ended up w/this story. One finding: 2.5×01.5k1.1k50
53Apr 2, '20UPDATE: After this pubbed, the prison called to say my use of video from an apparently contraband inmate phone was “participation in a felony” & they would call the OIG to inve2.5×02.4k71559
55Jul 13, '22So I just got rear-ended & the other driver called the cops. After taking my info the officer looked up & said: “Hey, and congratulations on the book.” I almost fainted.2.2×03.3k6125
56Mar 19, '21Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) just put out a press release condemning Biden for the conditions in unaccompanied minor facilities. Meanwhile, these pics are what they've been serving p2.2×01.7k71037
57Mar 7, '2010 years ago, a local Gannett paper ran a story abt my arrest on the front page. It was a lowpoint in my life. But I feel like things have come full circle now - today I have a byl2.1×02.4k38652
58Aug 17, '21The governor has COVID.2.1×01.8k24817
59Mar 30, '20A couple weeks ago, people realized that NY prisoners were being paid pennies to make hand sanitizer that they couldn't use; Texas prisoners are doing almost the same thing, except2.1×01.9k74115
60Dec 4, '21These are images from inside in an Alabama prison cell. In case you can’t tell, the first is 2 bottles of mice caught in one of the units. This has been circulating online over the2.1×01.7k60391
61May 21, '19When I was in prison, I heard horror stories abt Lakeview. Inmates said they’d been punched, raped, made to shovel snow w/spoons, forced to go off meds. 6 yrs later I decided to in2.1×01.4k756170
62Sep 16, '21The Texas prison system announced NINE employee covid deaths in the past 16 days. Five just since last Friday. How many prisoners died in that time? NO CLUE. They haven't updated p2.1×01.4k81527
63Dec 10, '18#BREAKING In response to a Chronicle investigation, the Texas prison system is going to start 3D printing dentures for inmates. And, remember that guy from the first story I did? N2.0×02.1k52420
64Dec 29, '22A dude just called me from prison to tell me my tiktoks made him laugh so hard he almost got caught with his contraband phone. This is ABSOLUTELY the best feedback I've ever gotten2.0×68k1.2k289
65Sep 26, '22Alabama prison officials just confirmed to me that prisoners at all major facilities are striking by refusing to work. Prisoners offered several reasons including the “humanitarian2.0×01.8k64337
66Nov 21, '18People ask me a lot about how we celebrated holiday in prison. Needless to say, it’s not very festive. But here’s a thread about jailhouse holiday cooking and small miracles behind1.9×01.6k55575
67Aug 5, '22People are literally burning to death in Texas prisons. YET ANOTHER man had died from a cell fire, per sources & officials. This is the THIRD such death in <a year — in a pr1.9×01.8k62233
68Dec 20, '20Today I celebrate 10 years. A decade since I stopped doing drugs. In recovery they always say it gets easier over time - but this year challenged that. Not surprisingly, it was not1.8×02.7k4510
69Oct 5, '18#BEEAKING Last year, I found out toothless prisoners in Texas weren’t getting dentures and being given blended food instead. Last month I wrote about it. Now, they’re changing poli1.7×01.6k44611
70Oct 26, '19This year for Halloween I am a PARTIALLY REDACTED RECORDS REQUEST. V proud of my low-effort costuming accomplishment here and Happy Spooky Season to all! (Except the people who wit1.6×02.1k18210
71Jul 8, '20As the state is about to execute Billy Wardlow, I keep re-reading his last letter to me. "Thank you... for showing me that I have worth, too - no matter what others might say or th1.6×01.6k38568
73May 20, '21WOW this is huge: The first texas execution in 10 months and the prison system says they accidentally made an “error” and forgot to let the media in. No. Media. Witnesses.1.6×01.2k52833
74Jun 17, '22The host was wonderful and friendly on this interview I did last night - but my heart sank so fast when I saw the chyron. So many words to describe what I was instead of who I am.1.5×01.9k14170
75Jul 5, '21"As a Texan, I’m just embarrassed to be governed by politicians who quaver at the prospect of a single uncomfortable conversation. If Texans were tough enough to fight at the Alamo1.5×01.5k36627
77Oct 13, '21#BREAKING The Department of Justice is investigating the Texas juvenile prison system.1.4×01.3k40338
79Jan 10, '21👀1.4×01.2k32926
81Sep 26, '20If your had brain-eating amoebas in the water supply on your 2020 bingo card you win! But also you lose because there are brain-eating amoebas. And you double lose because it's sti1.4×01.2k43118
82Mar 30, '20#BREAKING: Texas prisoners are suing for hand sanitizer, soap, and social distancing:1.4×01.2k46914
83Apr 26, '21#BREAKING An attorney with the Harris County Public Defender's Office has just applied for a posthumous pardon for #GeorgeFloyd - for the 2004 drug charge he got in Houston, when h1.3×01.1k43222
84Jan 16, '21“Shame on all of those involved and all of those who have looked the other way.” Statement from #DustinHiggs attorney following his execution:1.3×01.2k42517
85Dec 2, '19PERSONAL NEWS: Pleased to say that in Jan. I’ll be joining @MarshallProj as a Houston-based reporter covering the South. I’m so grateful for this opportunity. But first here’s a th1.3×01.6k10715
86May 2, '20I just got off the phone with a prisoner who told me about the 18 days he spent in quarantine for COVID. He was in solitary confinement and got one shower the whole time - and he l1.3×01.2k41111
87Oct 4, '21#BREAKING The Texas parole board just recommended posthumous clemency for #GeorgeFloyd. This is for the 2004 drug charge he got in Houston, when he was arrested by a cop now accuse1.3×01.1k38621
88Jul 31, '20Remember the guy with a wool allergy who had to sue the Texas prison system to get a blanket he wasn't allergic to? He wrote me to say that the court tossed out his case. "I got ex1.3×01.2k36151
89Jun 15, '21Plz use your shiny new shovel to build us a functional power grid k thx1.3×01.6k2284
90Jul 28, '21When I got arrested, Gawker took a swimsuit pic off my FB &wrote: "Cornell senior smuggled heroin, posed in bikini, edited Cornell Daily Sun" It was completely misogynist click1.2×01.6k10941
91Jun 14, '19NEW: Last year, I wrote abt how Texas prisons weren’t giving ppl teeth, making them drink pureed food instead. Afterward, the prison said they’d start 3D printing teeth. IT'S FINAL1.2×01.2k30920
92Aug 7, '21Today I heard from one of my sources who over the past year: caught covid in prison, was hospitalized, watched the guy next to him die, lost most of his vision and battled cancer. 1.2×01.8k5510
93Apr 18, '20Last night a worried mom forwarded me a letter from her son in prison, who said he traded his lunch for a stamp so he could write home and tell her how bad the conditions have gott1.2×01.1k32214
94Sep 6, '22THREAD: I spent the long weekend in a house full of formerly incarcerated TikTokers Between us, we did ~70 years & have >5 million followers. A few years ago none of us woul1.1×01.2k131130
95Jun 16, '21This is how hot it is in Texas: I left gummy vitamins in the car and now they are molten.1.1×01.2k12713
97Jul 13, '21Today I met with a high-ranking source who told me the agency he'd worked for viewed me as Enemy #1 because: “This bitch is figuring some shit out." Honestly that's the nicest thin1.0×01.4k6321
98Sep 24, '18UPDATE: The man featured in this story is now scheduled for oral reconstructive surgery... to get dentures. I am so proud to be in a job where I can write stories that have impact,1.0×01.1k2217
99Jun 26, '21I don't know who all needs to hear this but jail and prison are not the same thing and if you are a reporter you should ~absolutely learn the difference~ before you use either in a0.9×01.2k948
100Dec 28, '20In Texas prisons, people throw feces at each other or at staff so often that they have a phrase for it: getting "shitted down." Going to go out on a limb here and say this does not0.8×01.1k8210

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