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THREAD: When I got arrested, a woman I met my first day in jail told me I should take notes on everything and someday write a book. A decade later, I FINALLY have – and now you can buy it here.
I wish she had lived to see this.
Keri Blakinger
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Keri Blakinger
@keribla
Reporter @propublica. Fellow @newamerica. Priors: @marshallproj @latimes @HoustonChron. Author: Corrections in Ink. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
Joined September 2009
- Are we still calling it Mother's Day or is it now just Domestic Infant Supplier Day?
- If Hunter Biden ever worried that his struggle with addiction would derail his dad's career, I hope he goes to bed tonight knowing that in the end it did not. I don't mean that as a political statement, just a hope from one recovering addict to another.
- NO THE FUCK WE ARE NOT.Perry says Texans wiling to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market bit.ly/3s4O9lU
- Remember the Texas prisoner who sued for a cotton blanket because he was allergic to the prison's blankets and officials refused to give him a cotton one instead? I got records showing the state spent >$20,000 fighting his case instead of giving him a blanket.
- They protected Confederate statues better than the actual Capitol.
- It's wild what prisoners ACTUALLY do w/contraband phones vs. what prisons fear they'll do. I just talked to a guy who's using his to teach other guys computer science "We’re using Harvard’s CS50 materials," he said. "That professor @davidjmalan, I think he’s one of the best."
- NEW: A Scottish court has refused to extradite a man to America — entirely because he would have gone to Texas, and the judge decided Texas prison conditions violate international human rights standards. My latest, and a THREAD:
- The Los Angeles public defenders' union called the UCLA arrests "shameful and a complete failure of leadership" and said it is ready to "represent every person facing charges."
- I just found out one of my sources got killed. I'm sad, but I'm not gonna wax poetic about how he was a good guy. I’m not sure he was. But he was a great example of how broken the system is. And he did a lot to help expose that even without knowing it. THREAD:
- Every time I see one of these police brutality videos I think about all the brutality behind bars that we will never know - or never prove - because there isn’t cell phone footage.
- THIS is one of the most shocking jail lawsuits I've seen: An mentally ill man with an IQ of 55 who was being held on $1000 bail literally *starved to death* in an Arkansas jail. They put him in solitary, he decompensated - and he died. THREAD: documentcloud.org/documents/2357…
- At one Texas prison nearly 6% OF THE POPULATION has died of COVID-19. Not 6% of the covid patients died, but 6% of the entire prison population. That's according to a fabulous new report out today. Here's a thread w/some other 🤯 data: repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/hand…
