Email Author Alan Prendergast

Awards

• 2011 - Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 30, 2010

  "Black Out"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published November 4, 2010

  "Like an Open Book"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published October 22, 2009

  "The Quality of Mercy"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 14, 2009

  "The Giveaway"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2009 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published April 10, 2008

  "Miles and Miles"

• 2008 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published August 16, 2007

  "The Caged Life"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 8, 2007

  "The Punisher"

• 2006 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published December 8, 2005

  "Catch-16"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 12, 2005

  "If the Shoe Fits"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2005

  "Welcome to America"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 8, 2005

  "Duke of Oil"

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2000 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• The Needle and the Damage Done

  published December 14, 2000

  Terry Akers feels like death warmed over. His back throbs. His testicles ache. His gut -- dude, don't even ask. It's like he's living in an... More >>

• The Cowboy Way

  published November 23, 2000

  Standing at a makeshift podium in a field outside the Florence federal prison complex, Jim Davis gestured angrily at the stark walls encased in... More >>

• Against the Odds

  published November 2, 2000

  Hunched over the counter of the only 7-Eleven in Widefield, an elderly black man named Leo mulls over what could be his most consequential... More >>

• A Man of Convictions

  published October 19, 2000

  Bob Sylvester doesn't want to go back to prison. He knows too much about prison and what it does to you. On October 23, Sylvester will find... More >>

• A State of Denial

  published October 12, 2000

  The past few months have not been the best of times for the folks at Halaby, Cross & Schluter, the private law firm hired to defend the City of... More >>

• Big Wheels

  published September 28, 2000

  In pursuit of the good life, Mr. Deep Pockets takes the highway. The big silver automobile cruises through the thinning evening traffic with... More >>

• No One Told Mr. D

  published September 14, 2000

  The teachers and students of Columbine returned to school last month to the welcome sounds of silence. There were no news photographers to... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published September 7, 2000

  A key defendant in the bizarre Aspen crime spree of last summer, the first to take his case to trial, has been found guilty on two felony counts... More >>

• Ragin' Cajun

  published August 17, 2000

  Poor Dave Robicheaux. After years of solving crimes too close to home, the brash, volcanic homicide detective carries more psychic baggage than... More >>

• Can't Buy a Thrill

  published August 17, 2000

  Cody Wille stands flat-footed outside the back door of Clark's Market in Aspen. He fumbles with his mask, trying to get the eyeholes right with... More >>

• A Broken Code

  published July 27, 2000

  It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Last year, when several individual defectors from the Aryan Brotherhood, the notorious... More >>

• The Missing Motive

  published July 13, 2000

  One of the most glaring deficiencies of the sheriff's report is its cursory treatment of the circumstances that led up to the attack. "While this... More >>

• The Lost Command

  published July 13, 2000

  What may have been the defining moment in the history of the Governor's Columbine Review Commission unfolded last month. Consigned to a small... More >>

• Him Write Pretty

  published June 15, 2000

  A fumbling reviewer once threw David Sedaris a backhanded compliment by declaring that his writing was void of trenchant social commentary: "He... More >>

• Enemy Mine

  published June 8, 2000

  Having a gold mine next door can be a wonderful thing, bringing wealth and jobs to the community. Or it can be an environmental nightmare just... More >>

• Marked for Death

  published May 25, 2000

  Jeremy Garcia was the first to see the Special Forces commandos. Well, they said they were Special Forces. But the two men didn't look like... More >>

• None Dare Call It Travesty

  published April 27, 2000

  You are not the kind of person who settles for easy answers. You never swallowed the Warren Report. You think the Church Committee's... More >>

• Stonewalled

  published April 13, 2000

  The Story They Don't Want to Tell On the morning of Judgment Day, minutes before they launch their deadly assault on Columbine High School,... More >>

• Sweet Revenge

  published March 9, 2000

  Best-selling author Bryce Proctorr has a fat publishing contract and a debilitating case of writer's block. Fortunately, he's just bumped into... More >>

• Unlawful Entry--Related Story

  published February 24, 2000

  The man on the phone says he doesn't want anyone to know his name. He may wind up being the star witness in a police perjury trial, but right now... More >>

• Unlawful Entry

  published February 24, 2000

  It was all over in three minutes. At 1:47 p.m. on September 29, 1999, a Denver SWAT team, acting on information contained in a fatally flawed... More >>

• Look for the Union URL

  published February 17, 2000

  When officials at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons set out to build a supermax penitentiary capable of holding the most dangerous inmates in the federal... More >>

• Lessons from the Third Grade

  published January 27, 2000

  It's ten minutes after nine. Room 205 comes alive. The children file in to the murmur of the Pledge of Allegiance, recited in English and... More >>

• The Hundred Days' War

  published January 13, 2000

  For the record, Douglas Bruce is not a socialist. You don't have to be one, he says, to despise the regressive tax structure in the state of... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published January 6, 2000

  A veteran official of the Colorado Department of Corrections resigned last week in the wake of controversy surrounding two sexual-harassment... More >>