Keri Blakinger
@keribla.bsky.social
Reporter: ProPublica. Author: Corrections in Ink. Priors: LA Times, Houston Chron, Marshall Project. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
amazing stuff heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28...
January 29, 2026 at 6:13 PM
amazing stuff heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28...
The BOP is "still exploring the feasibility of Alcatraz," the agency's deputy director told staff recently.
This screenshot is from an internal email with some of the staff questions and his responses:
This screenshot is from an internal email with some of the staff questions and his responses:
January 29, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The BOP is "still exploring the feasibility of Alcatraz," the agency's deputy director told staff recently.
This screenshot is from an internal email with some of the staff questions and his responses:
This screenshot is from an internal email with some of the staff questions and his responses:
Reposted by Keri Blakinger
WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 PM
WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...
Tonight Texas executed Charles Thompson. These were his last words:
January 29, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Tonight Texas executed Charles Thompson. These were his last words:
truly nothing to add here, just an amazing headline
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/a...
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/a...
'Abolish ICE' Submitted 9,200 Times For Chicago Snowplow Naming Contest, Records Show
Anti-ICE sentiments made up nearly 80 percent of submissions. Voting for the top six names opens Sunday and runs through Feb. 14.
blockclubchicago.org
January 29, 2026 at 1:26 AM
truly nothing to add here, just an amazing headline
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/a...
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/a...
Sigh. Tried to log in to corrlinks (to check email from federal prisoners) and got this:
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Sigh. Tried to log in to corrlinks (to check email from federal prisoners) and got this:
The largest federal employee union - representing workers from TSA to USDA to BOP to Border Patrol - is calling for the resignation of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller www.afge.org/publication/...
AFGE Demands Resignation or Termination of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller for Smearing Slain AFGE Member Alex Pretti as “Domestic Terrorist”
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union representing 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas.
www.afge.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:33 PM
The largest federal employee union - representing workers from TSA to USDA to BOP to Border Patrol - is calling for the resignation of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller www.afge.org/publication/...
Aside from being short on COs - who are leaving for ICE in droves - the federal prison system is also apparently short on staff psychologists.
More than 1/3 of staff psych positions are unfilled now, per @themarshallproject.org www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/26/m...
More than 1/3 of staff psych positions are unfilled now, per @themarshallproject.org www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/26/m...
Amid ‘Catastrophic’ Shortage, Psychologists Flee Federal Prisons in Droves
With fewer and fewer employees to run the prisons, psychologists were repeatedly forced to act as guards.
www.themarshallproject.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Aside from being short on COs - who are leaving for ICE in droves - the federal prison system is also apparently short on staff psychologists.
More than 1/3 of staff psych positions are unfilled now, per @themarshallproject.org www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/26/m...
More than 1/3 of staff psych positions are unfilled now, per @themarshallproject.org www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/26/m...
I've asked BOP how many of their tactical guys are inMN as well as whether they have any comment on how or why their officer is standing outside this hotel with a bloody hand and mouth. This was their response.
(They declined to comment and referred me to ICE.)
(They declined to comment and referred me to ICE.)
January 26, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I've asked BOP how many of their tactical guys are inMN as well as whether they have any comment on how or why their officer is standing outside this hotel with a bloody hand and mouth. This was their response.
(They declined to comment and referred me to ICE.)
(They declined to comment and referred me to ICE.)
Reposted by Keri Blakinger
Minneapolis, MN -
One press member offered medical assistance to the FPS agent with a “less lethal” launcher standing in front of the hotel. I asked him if he could tell us what happened to his nose (it’s visibly bloody and he’s spitting out blood).
His response: “no.”
One press member offered medical assistance to the FPS agent with a “less lethal” launcher standing in front of the hotel. I asked him if he could tell us what happened to his nose (it’s visibly bloody and he’s spitting out blood).
His response: “no.”
January 26, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Minneapolis, MN -
One press member offered medical assistance to the FPS agent with a “less lethal” launcher standing in front of the hotel. I asked him if he could tell us what happened to his nose (it’s visibly bloody and he’s spitting out blood).
His response: “no.”
One press member offered medical assistance to the FPS agent with a “less lethal” launcher standing in front of the hotel. I asked him if he could tell us what happened to his nose (it’s visibly bloody and he’s spitting out blood).
His response: “no.”
I ran / hiked for just under two hours and had no additional activity today and somehow Fitbit says I have four hours of activity in whatever zone today. How??
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I ran / hiked for just under two hours and had no additional activity today and somehow Fitbit says I have four hours of activity in whatever zone today. How??
Autocorrect just tried to change federal to feral as in the “feral prison system” and you know what, fair
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Autocorrect just tried to change federal to feral as in the “feral prison system” and you know what, fair
Reposted by Keri Blakinger
Sonya's longtime friend now fears now that she'll be cut off from speaking to her, that the incident will harm Sonya when she's up for parole. Sonya, when I spoke to her, was focused on the cats.
"Despite what this prison does to me, it's the cats that make me want to be a better person."
"Despite what this prison does to me, it's the cats that make me want to be a better person."
January 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Sonya's longtime friend now fears now that she'll be cut off from speaking to her, that the incident will harm Sonya when she's up for parole. Sonya, when I spoke to her, was focused on the cats.
"Despite what this prison does to me, it's the cats that make me want to be a better person."
"Despite what this prison does to me, it's the cats that make me want to be a better person."
Reposted by Keri Blakinger
The cats, OJ especially, noticed Sonya's absence. Sonya is being charged with "solicitation." TDCJ claims that Sonya, a prison volunteer, and Sonya's friend, all broke prison rules by giving a volunteer a phone number to give to the vet.
January 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The cats, OJ especially, noticed Sonya's absence. Sonya is being charged with "solicitation." TDCJ claims that Sonya, a prison volunteer, and Sonya's friend, all broke prison rules by giving a volunteer a phone number to give to the vet.
Reposted by Keri Blakinger
After the GoFundMe - organized by a friend and her daughter, not Sonya - blew up, officials at TDCJ asked Sonya for statements but insisted she wasn't in trouble. Days later, she was in solitary, with none of her belongings, including her religious items.
January 24, 2026 at 3:39 PM
After the GoFundMe - organized by a friend and her daughter, not Sonya - blew up, officials at TDCJ asked Sonya for statements but insisted she wasn't in trouble. Days later, she was in solitary, with none of her belongings, including her religious items.
Reposted by Keri Blakinger
At the Patrick O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Sonya is known as the "Crazy Cat Lady." Caring for stray cats at the unit has given her purpose over the 29 years she's been incarcerated.
"I never got the chance to be a mother. These cats are my surrogate children."
"I never got the chance to be a mother. These cats are my surrogate children."
January 24, 2026 at 3:36 PM
At the Patrick O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Sonya is known as the "Crazy Cat Lady." Caring for stray cats at the unit has given her purpose over the 29 years she's been incarcerated.
"I never got the chance to be a mother. These cats are my surrogate children."
"I never got the chance to be a mother. These cats are my surrogate children."
Reposted by Keri Blakinger
NEW: I spoke with the Texas inmate who was put in solitary confinement after a GoFundMe for her sick prison cat went viral. While she's since been returned to regular housing, she and her longtime friend worry that more retaliation could be on the way.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
A Texas inmate's cat fundraiser went viral. Solitary confinement followed.
"Despite what this prison does to me, it's the cats that make me want to be a better person."
www.chron.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:32 PM
NEW: I spoke with the Texas inmate who was put in solitary confinement after a GoFundMe for her sick prison cat went viral. While she's since been returned to regular housing, she and her longtime friend worry that more retaliation could be on the way.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
autocorrect changed my "trail run" into a "train run" so now it looks like i'm telling this source my sunday morning plans are to be slutty but in a syntactically confused manner.
that was really helpful thanks.
that was really helpful thanks.
January 23, 2026 at 6:04 PM
autocorrect changed my "trail run" into a "train run" so now it looks like i'm telling this source my sunday morning plans are to be slutty but in a syntactically confused manner.
that was really helpful thanks.
that was really helpful thanks.
i have so many questions that i in fact have none at all abc13.com/post/man-ser...
Man serving time for decapitating wife dies behind bars from self-inflicted injury, TDCJ says
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that a man who murdered his wife in 2023 has died from a self-inflicted injury.
abc13.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:11 AM
i have so many questions that i in fact have none at all abc13.com/post/man-ser...
LASD just posted its fourth jail death for this calendar year...
January 22, 2026 at 6:15 PM
LASD just posted its fourth jail death for this calendar year...
how the fuck did i just lose a whole ass butcher knife in my 500 square foot apartment like there are just not that many places i could possibly put a 12 inch knife
wtf
wtf
January 20, 2026 at 6:55 PM
how the fuck did i just lose a whole ass butcher knife in my 500 square foot apartment like there are just not that many places i could possibly put a 12 inch knife
wtf
wtf
The comments on this post are amazing www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...
From the fednews community on Reddit: FBI currently raiding the home of a Washington Post reporter who works with this subreddit.
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
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January 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:29 AM
"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
jesus fucking christ
January 18, 2026 at 9:43 PM
jesus fucking christ