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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Attorneys for Rosa Ramirez say she was talking to a deputy outside her home last year when an off-leash patrol dog clamped down on her hand, permanently injuring her.
July 26, 2024
A lawyer for Diana Teran, a top aide to L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, argued in court that she had committed no crimes when she flagged several sheriff’s deputies’ names for possible inclusion on a list of problem officers.
July 26, 2024
Under former Sheriff Alex Villanueva, detectives secretly investigated and urged the state attorney general to prosecute a Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote on a leaked list of problem deputies.
July 20, 2024
A look inside former Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s multi-year investigation shows investigators relentlessly pursued a probe focused on supposedly stolen records and document leaks.
July 19, 2024
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta says the state Justice Department will independently review deputies’ shooting of a carjacking suspect after a chaotic pursuit.
July 17, 2024
Lee Baca, the onetime L.A. County sheriff, has Alzheimer’s disease. The Sheriff’s Department said he was found overnight in El Monte.
July 15, 2024
La temporada de incendios en California ha tenido un comienzo feroz. Aquí está lo último sobre la temporada hasta la fecha, incluidos los casi 20 incendios que arden en el estado.
July 12, 2024
Charles Wright, then a middle-school teacher in the Inglewood Unified School District, was arrested in early 2022 after DNA and fingerprint evidence linked him to the killing of Pertina Epps.
July 12, 2024
The first wildfire death of the 2024 season was reported Friday as California grapples with scorching heat expected to continue into the weekend.
July 13, 2024
California’s fire season is off to a fierce start. Here’s the latest on the season to date, including the nearly 20 fires burning in the state.
July 12, 2024