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 Houston Chronicle and then covering prisons for the Marshall Project. Blakinger was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing for a Marshall Project piece, co-published with the New York Times Magazine, about men on Death Row in Texas who play clandestine games of “Dungeons & Dragons,” countering their extreme isolation with elaborate fantasy. 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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L.A. County is embarking on a national search for an executive director to lead a team with one objective: closing Men’s Central Jail.
Oct. 5, 2024
Newly reported deputy subgroup logo features a skull with blood-red eyes, pierced by a jagged lightning bolt
Oct. 5, 2024
LAPD officers have jailed a former Men’s Central Jail deputy on accusations of being involved in an armed robbery in which a man’s car was shot at last month.
Oct. 2, 2024
Benny Caluya, 68, pleaded not guilty Monday to one felony count of a lewd act on a child and one felony count of furnishing a controlled substance to a minor.
Oct. 1, 2024
The wealthy operator of a cryptocurrency trading platform allegedly paid a number of L.A. County sheriff’s deputies to perform unlawful searches and arrests, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday.
Sept. 26, 2024
The department confirmed the move was linked to a probe ‘involving the U.S. Attorney’s Office’ but declined to provide information about the number of deputies.
Sept. 25, 2024
A judge tossed ex-Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s lawsuit over a ‘do not rehire’ designation, but his lawyers say they plan to refile.
Sept. 23, 2024
An L.A. County sheriff’s deputy who was relieved of duty two years ago was charged this month with sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
Sept. 18, 2024
L.A. Sheriff’s Department announces policy it says will ban deputy gangs, hate groups
Sept. 18, 2024
In Rolling Hills, 35 homes are set to lose gas Monday, then 50 homes are expected to lose electricity by Wednesday.
Sept. 16, 2024