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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2010 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• Comment on this: State employee's prolific Denver Post postings draw fire

  published Jan 26, 2010

  Davies loves a good debate. The avid Denver Post reader posted 624 comments in response to articles on the newspaper's website during a nine-month period that started last February -- an average of f... More >>

• Kristen Parker: Sentencing options for the hep C inflicter

  published Jan 25, 2010

  Last Friday U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn threw out a plea bargain deal for former Rose Medical Center employee Kristen Parker, who admitted infecting surgical patients with hepatitis C through... More >>

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  Eyewitness to Hell: Dr. Scott Burke on Haiti's medical nightmare

  published Jan 25, 2010

  Just a few hours after touching down in Denver, after a week of performing emergency amputations in a makeshift operating room in Port-au-Prince, local surgeon Scott Burke was trying to catch up on hi... More >>

• Will throwing more money at the prison system reduce inmate violencer

  published Jan 21, 2010

  Recent Denver Post stories about increasing inmate violence at some state prisons have arrived just in time for the annual budget battle between lawmakers and the Colorado Department of Corrections --... More >>

• Prison soap art: Inspiration for the great unwashed, or just creepyr

  published Jan 20, 2010

  Prisoners send me all kinds of weird crap. I've gotten medical records sealed with toothpaste. Lists of DEA informants on toilet paper. Hair samples from a supermax inmate who wanted them tested to pr... More >>

• Teabaggers, Muslims and other name-calling in Jane Norton's Senate race

  published Jan 19, 2010

  Based on early returns, the U.S. Senate race in Colorado this year is shaping up to be one gloriously ugly mudwallow, with GOP candidate Jane Norton painting the opposition as terrorist-loving pansie... More >>

• More wild horse roundups (and protests) in the works

  published Jan 18, 2010

  Amid a stampede of controversy over the government's effort to remove 2,500 wild horses from their historic range in Nevada, the Bureau of Land Management has announced two more roundups scheduled for... More >>

• Remembering tough judge William Erickson -- and a nasty cover-up

  published Jan 15, 2010

  William Erickson, who passed away this week at the age of 85, will long be remembered for his remarkable 25 years on the Colorado Supreme Court and a host of other accomplishments. But he will also be... More >>

• Herding sheep -- quite possibly Colorado's worst job

  published Jan 14, 2010

  A couple of eons ago, I got my first introduction to hard labor as an ill-paid apprentice on my uncle's ranch in southern Colorado. I herded and branded cattle, hauled feed, chopped the ice that cover... More >>

• New website shines light on dark corners of the prison system

  published Jan 12, 2010

  Get in serious trouble, go to prison. Get into some bad shit inside prison -- attacking staff, running heroin, or maybe somebody doesn't like your gang tattoo -- and you go to the hole, also known as ... More >>

• Jane Norton has trouble with the S-word -- as in Ken Salazar

  published Jan 08, 2010

  Senate candidate and former lieutenant governor Jane Norton is the latest GOP leader to blast Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's proposed energy reforms. The vitriol is pretty shrill -- she refer... More >>

• Ken Salazar, and the uncertainties of his quest for certainty

  published Jan 07, 2010

  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says his energy plan will bring more certainty to the way public lands get leased and drilled, but it's hard to say who's paying attention. During a teleconferenc... More >>

• Protesters cheer stallion's escape from roundup

  published Jan 06, 2010

  Protests continue around the country over the Bureau of Land Management's ongoing roundup of 2,500 wild horses in Nevada, including a rally scheduled for January 7 in downtown Denver. Groups outraged... More >>

• Homeless coalition weighs service cuts, defends "lean" salaries

  published Jan 05, 2010

  Grappling with a shortfall in government funding and a rising tide of people displaced by a wretched economy, officers and senior staff of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless will make some tough ... More >>