My First Byline: Keri Blakinger

Reporter, Los Angeles Times

Courtesy of Keri Blakinger

What is your current job?

I’m a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where I mainly cover the insanity of the L.A. Sheriff’s Department. Before that, I covered prisons in Texas, first for the Houston Chronicle and then for The Marshall Project. I have also written one book, a memoir called “Corrections in Ink.” I guess the elevat…