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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2007 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• Blackburned

  published December 13, 2007

  It's ten minutes to five on the afternoon of June 29, 2006, and Mark Brennan can feel the tension coiled inside him like a steel spring, wound... More >>

• The Poisoned Pen of Fort Lyon Prison

  published November 15, 2007

  History Lesson #1 In 1829, William Bent headed west to join his older brother in the fur business. William was twenty years old,... More >>

• Blackwater Isn't the Only Security Contractor With Something to Hide

  published October 25, 2007

  After twenty years of highly decorated service in the U.S. Army Special Forces, David Boone thought he knew the rules of engagement. But that... More >>

• Mapping the Future of Urban Sprawl

  published October 4, 2007

  I'm going to show you a bunch of maps," David Theobald tells the undergraduates packed into the small lecture hall. "Don't get caught up... More >>

• Fortress of Solitude

  published August 16, 2007

  A hundred miles southwest of Denver, the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum houses a killer lineup of mobsters (Salvatore "Sammy the Bull"... More >>

• The Caged Life

  published August 16, 2007

  When the goon squad showed up at his place at five in the morning, Tommy Silverstein knew something was up. He wasn't accustomed to greeting... More >>

• High Trauma

  published July 19, 2007

  From his Lakewood offices along the Sixth Avenue freeway frontage road, attorney David Mintz can see the towering 1-800-4INJURY sign in his... More >>

• Darren Morrison's Virtual Aggression

  published June 7, 2007

  It takes all kinds, this argument over guns in America. Patriots and paranoids, cranks and constitutionalists, handwringers and Huns, they all... More >>

• Too Many Fire Chiefs

  published May 24, 2007

  After it was all over — the emergency meetings and votes of no confidence, the suspensions and resignations, the backroom intrigues and... More >>

• Douglas Glaser on Ice

  published May 17, 2007

  A decade ago, wrestling with crushing legal and financial problems and looking at months of jail time, a cocky 26-year-old stockbroker named... More >>

• The Hunt for Green

  published April 26, 2007

  The trucks rumble through the gates of Waste Management Recycle America's plant in north Denver, lining up for their turn at the scales. A driver... More >>

• Making Nice

  published April 5, 2007

  Earlier this year, officials at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center quietly settled a long-running lawsuit filed by Robert Schrier,... More >>

• When Mistakes Don't Matter

  published February 22, 2007

  The justice system isn't very good at confessing its own crimes. Even when officials admit that mistakes were made, they rarely take the kind of... More >>

• A Thumb on the Scales

  published February 8, 2007

  A cynic might regard the phone call that District Attorney Carol Chambers made to Jonathan Steiner, for which she was publicly censured six weeks... More >>

• The Punisher

  published February 8, 2007

  As the moment of his sentencing approaches, Tristan Gilmour sits petulantly in an Arapahoe County courtroom. His put-upon attorney, deputy public... More >>

• The Good Part

  published February 1, 2007

  After Eric Harris shot him and left him for dead on the lawn of Columbine High School, all sixteen-year-old Mark Taylor could think about was... More >>