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. She struggled with bulimia during her competitions and, after her skating career ended, she developed a drug addiction in high school and college. She continued to deal with this and other problems while attending Rutgers University and later Cornell University before being arrested in December 2010 for possession of heroin.
She accepted a plea deal for two and a half years in prison, and the experience caused her to change her focus to journalism and trying to improve the penal system in the United States through her reporting. She worked for a number of news outlets in the late 2010's, including the Ithaca Times, the New York Daily News, and the Houston Chronicle before joining The Marshall Project in 2019. Her work has resulted in the charging of a prison rape perpetrator and several reforms to the prison policies regarding women and the physical and culinary options afforded inmates.
In 2022, she authored a memoir, Corrections in Ink: A Memoir, in which she describes major events of her life, including her addiction, arrest, and observations on prison life, including racism she says she observed while incarcerated.
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...
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Archived from the original on April 10, 2021. Retrieved April 10, 2021. Blakinger, Keri (February 22, 2024). "Oversight investigators find deputy gang 'logo'...
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with Kelsey Sollom until 1999 in Moorhead, Minnesota and then with KeriBlakinger while at the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club in Newark, Delaware...
American-Statesman. Thursday January 10, 2008. Retrieved on June 4, 2010. Blakinger, Keri (9 August 2018). "After $9 million in hiring bonuses, Texas prisons...
for Home Buyers". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2022. Blakinger, Keri (July 19, 2016). "A Look Back at When Nazis Lived on Long Island –...
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