Keri Blakinger is an investigative reporter for The Marshall Project, where she covers prisons, jails and capital punishment. She is the organizations’s first formerly incarcerated reporter, as she served 21 months in New York prisons following a drug arrest in 2010. After her release, she worked at the Ithaca Times, the New York Daily News and the Houston Chronicle. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, VICE, the BBC and NBC News. She is currently working on a memoir to be published with St. Martin’s Press in 2022. Her areas of expertise include prison conditions, mass incarceration, capital punishment and other criminal justice topics.

Additional Context on Racial Justice Expertise. As a reporter covering criminal justice and prisons, the racial inequality of mass incarceration plays a roll in much of my work.

Additional Context on Topics of Expertise

• prison conditions
• federal prisons
• Texas prisons
• New York prisons
• capital punishment
• lethal injection

Additional Context on Relevant Work & Awards

Additional Context on Consulting Services + Credits

• consulted on Netflix series regarding wrongful conviction case I reported on