A Conversation with The Marshall Project’s Keri Blakinger and COVID-19’s Impact

Earlier this week, Legal Briefs spoke with a criminal justice reporter with firsthand experience from the prisoners' perspective: Keri Blakinger, currently a writer at The Marshall Project, and most recently at the Houston Chronicle covering criminal justice and the death penalty. Prior to her career in journalism, Keri spent two years behind bars in a New York State prison. She spoke with us about her experience, and both how COVID-19  impacts prisons and jails in the short-term as well as how the virus may shape the system in the years ahead. 

We’ll also explore how mass incarceration, bond reform, visitation rights, and prison programming might look after the pandemic ends.
 

LINKS:

• Keri Blakinger, writer, The Marshall Project
• Episode page on NDAA's Medium blog