Keri Blakinger covers the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2023, she spent nearly seven years in Texas, first covering criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle and then covering prisons for the Marshall Project. Her work has appeared everywhere from the BBC to the New York Daily News, from Vice to the Washington Post Magazine, where her 2019 reporting on women in jail helped earn a National Magazine Award. She is the author of “Corrections in Ink,” a 2022 memoir about her time in prison.
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The drugstore closures in Ensenada come on the heels of a months-long investigation by The Times.
Dec. 10, 2023
Sheriff Robert Luna has been in office nearly a year. His tenure is calmer than his controversial predecessor’s, but critics question his track record. He talks to The Times.
Dec. 10, 2023
Six years after a deadly Boyle Heights crash, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department has moved to discipline two deputies involved.
Dec. 2, 2023
Jonathan Tejada Paredes was arrested a day after officials learned of the sexual assault allegation involving a woman incarcerated at the Century Regional Detention Facility, authorities said Wednesday.
Nov. 29, 2023
Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer was gunned down in September. Now, his parents are alleging that he worked so much forced overtime he couldn’t stay alert against threats.
Nov. 28, 2023
A Fresno woman was arrested for allegedly shoplifting. She died in a Los Angeles jail. When her mother finally got the body back, it was unrecognizable.
Nov. 26, 2023
After two false starts, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approves a contract that will allow inmates to phone home for free as of Dec. 1
Nov. 21, 2023
An L.A. County sheriff’s deputies union recently elected to its board a veteran lawman with a controversial tattoo who was involved in two shootings that cost the county $4 million.
Nov. 17, 2023
The trove of jail security footage was released after The Times and Witness LA asked a federal judge to make the videos public.
Nov. 10, 2023
L.A. County will pay $700,000 to a public radio journalist who was slammed to the ground and arrested by deputies while covering a 2020 protest.
Nov. 8, 2023