Email Author Alan Prendergast

Awards

• 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"

• 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"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, 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"

• 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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2004 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• Going Off

  published December 23, 2004

  At most private prisons, staffers earn far less than state correctional officers, receive less training and are far more likely to quit in their... More >>

• Maxed Out

  published December 23, 2004

  On a muggy July afternoon, Matthew Romero hit the yard of the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility for the first time. He was looking forward... More >>

• Shades of Guilt

  published November 25, 2004

  She stepped quickly to the witness stand. She raised her right hand. She swore to tell the truth. So began the main event in the murder... More >>

• Nowhere Man

  published November 11, 2004

  Until two years ago, Marcia Simmons thought of herself as a pretty lucky woman. She wasn't fabulously rich, but she did have what mattered to her:... More >>

• Anatomy of a Cover-up

  published September 30, 2004

  It took five years, a state grand jury and key evidence from a reluctant witness, but families who lost children in the attack on Columbine High... More >>

• Anatomy of a Cover-up

  published September 23, 2004

  It took five years, a state grand jury and key evidence from a reluctant witness, but families who lost children in the attack on Columbine High... More >>

• Loved to Death

  published September 23, 2004

  The girls are twenty feet off the road, climbing stealthily up an embankment to get a better look at grazing elk. Their woodcraft isn't sneaky... More >>

• Throwing Fitz

  published September 2, 2004

  When Robert "Chip" Schooley arrived in Denver from Harvard fourteen years ago, the rate of survival among Colorado's AIDS patients was grim. The... More >>

• Outfaxed

  published August 5, 2004

  Mike Zinna is feeling giddy. After years of battling Jefferson County officials, whom he's accused of everything from financial malfeasance and... More >>

• Outfaxed

  published July 29, 2004

  Mike Zinna is feeling giddy. After years of battling Jefferson County officials, whom he’s accused of everything from financial malfeasance an... More >>

• The Doctor Is Out

  published July 22, 2004

  Folks in Trinidad were relieved to learn last year that the town's only hospital had obtained the services of Dr. Marci Bowers, an obstetrician... More >>

• Above It All

  published July 8, 2004

  The team is exhausted, but the goal is in sight. Since heading out from base camp, we have endured unimaginable privations (lunch was a bit... More >>

• Meanwhile, Back at the Villa...

  published July 1, 2004

  Harry Elder isn't the only local builder of luxury houses who's battled creditors, lienholders and... More >>

• The Trouble With Harry

  published July 1, 2004

  Friend, are you tired of living in a crackerbox? Do you dream of a mansion on a hill? Does that dream include stately stone turrets,... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published May 27, 2004

  Last week's auction was supposed to resolve the conundrum of who owns Barnum, a 65-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex with a fascinating and... More >>

• The Maverick

  published May 20, 2004

  Bill Masters is looking for a meth lab. In the big city, the search would take him down mean streets, to a ratty duplex or a motel bathroom... More >>

• Bulls Behaving Badly

  published May 6, 2004

  It wasn't Elizabeth Gardesani's idea to confront her tormentor this way. She could think of a lot of places she would rather be than alone... More >>

• The Next Bad Thing

  published May 6, 2004

  John Dunn stands on the deck of his home, pointing out the virtues of country living. On a 160-acre spread in southern Elbert County, they are... More >>

• Quagmire Without End, Amen

  published March 4, 2004

  In a belated effort to clear the air, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office offered up its souvenirs of a massacre last Thursday. It was quite a... More >>

• Quagmire Without End, Amen

  published February 26, 2004

  In a belated effort to clear the air, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office offered up its souvenirs of a massacre last Thursday. It was quite ... More >>

• Open Spaced

  published February 19, 2004

  Rita Bertolli first noticed the work crews in the ravine last April. From the kitchen of her family's home, at the end of a Green Mountain... More >>

• Mr. Spam Man

  published January 29, 2004

  FWD: SCOTT, DON'T SUFFER BETWEEN PAYCHECKS! THINK BIG! In Scott Richter's world, size matters. Richter knows that Americans like... More >>

• Just the 'Fax, man

  published January 22, 2004

  Amid the nourishing chaos of city life, we urban dwellers find ourselves brain-deep in startling juxtapositions. Mid-morning one Tuesday, a... More >>

• All Wet

  published January 15, 2004

  In any other burg, the decision over which fancy-label bottled water to sell at the local opera house would cause scarcely a ripple of comment.... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published January 1, 2004

  Only two people truly know who inflicted fatal injuries on Kyran Gaston-Voss a year ago, and they know it beyond any doubt. One of them,... More >>