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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2012 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• Cab companies may have bungled insurance for injured drivers, court rules

  published Apr 24, 2012

  Call it the latest legal frontier in the city's cab wars. A recent Colorado Court of Appeals decision, reinstating a severely injured Denver Yellow Cab driver's lawsuit against the company's insuror... More >>

• Mental health care without drugs: "Expanding Our Vision" summit coming to Denver

  published Apr 23, 2012

  The first thing Amy Smith has to explain to skeptics is that she isn't a Scientologist. You don't have to belong to an oddball religion to question American medicine's heavy reliance on psychoactive d... More >>

• Prison rape: Justice Department says poor design, training, attitudes fuel assaults

  published Apr 20, 2012

  Last year a federal review panel heard some amazing excuses from corrections officials about why their jails and prisons have exceptionally high rates of sexual assault. One sheriff even claimed inmat... More >>

• Harmony for Horses benefit concert to aid Bailey's neglected equines

  published Apr 06, 2012

  It's a story too common in recent months: horses found emaciated on a Colorado ranch and seized by authorities in a last-ditch effort to save them. Half a dozen horses were discovered in a state of se... More >>

• Sam Granillo's documentary on Columbine: Animation, fundraisers and survivor guilt

  published Mar 23, 2012

  This week's cover story, "The Columbine Effect," reports on the controversy over a proposed television miniseries based on the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School -- and the effort by CHS grad Sam... More >>

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  Columbine on TV: The five most convoluted school shooting episodes

  published Mar 22, 2012

  This week's feature, "The Columbine Effect," reports on the controversy over a proposed miniseries about the shootings at Columbine -- and the way filmmakers have made use of the tragedy to advance va... More >>

• Tonight: Author Amy Reading explores Denver's con-artist past

  published Mar 21, 2012

  In 1919 rancher J. Frank Norfleet got swindled twice by a roving group of slick con artists, who cleaned him out of $45,000 with a fake stock-exchange scam similar to the "Big Con" operation in The St... More >>

• We Need to Talk About Kevin may be the most revealing Columbine-related film

  published Mar 21, 2012

  This week's feature, "The Columbine Effect," explores the enduring fascination indie filmmakers seem to have with the attack on Columbine High School thirteen years ago -- and the agendas advanced (gu... More >>

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  Tonight: Poetry Out Loud gets proud in Lakewood

  published Mar 20, 2012

  On a Tuesday night on the cusp of spring, when a young man's fancy turns and the cruelest month looms just days away, you could do worse than head to Lakewood to hear great verse declaimed at the seve... More >>

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  The Columbine shootings continue to "inspire" Hollywood

  published March 22, 2012

  The news first surfaced in the Hollywood trade press last month: The Lifetime cable network is developing a miniseries about the 1999 school... More >>

• Child and Family Investigators clause in reform bill draws fire from legal lobby

  published Mar 16, 2012

  Figuring some modest improvement is better than none, the Colorado House Judiciary Committee passed along a bill yesterday that's intended to make child and family investigators (CFI) and other profes... More >>

• Aaron Million pipeline: Opponents' build PR blitz around film Green With Envy

  published Mar 15, 2012

  Real-estate investor Aaron Million's modest proposal to build a 550-mile pipeline to move water from southwest Wyoming to Colorado's Front Range has lots of critics. But a major challenge facing oppon... More >>

• Joe Arridy: Pardoned long after his execution, mentally impaired man gets online props

  published Mar 13, 2012

  The most shameful date in the history of Colorado's death penalty is January 6, 1939 -- the day the state executed a bewildered 23-year-old man with an IQ of 46, a man who was innocent in just about e... More >>

• Juveniles prosecuted as adults: Colorado's hardline approach not working, report says

  published Mar 06, 2012

  Nearly twenty years after Denver's much-hyped "Summer of Violence" triggered a harsher approach to juvenile offenders statewide, lawmakers are wrestling with two reform bills -- and a new report conte... More >>

• ACLU, faith groups urge governors not to sell out to private prison giant

  published Mar 05, 2012

  A broad proposal by the country's largest private prison company to buy up and privatize state prisons has been met with a stiff rebuke from the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of justi... More >>

• Callie Hendrickson: "Pro-slaughter" appointee to wild horse board draws protests

  published Mar 02, 2012

  The appointment of Callie Hendrickson to a board that helps shape the federal government's wild horse management plan has touched off a frenzy of petitions and protests by horse advocacy groups. They ... More >>

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  School shootings: Some Columbine myths resurface

  published Feb 29, 2012

  There's no coherent explanation yet for seventeen-year-old T.J. Lane's attack on Chardon High School in Ohio on Monday, which killed three students and injured two others -- and the "why" may prove el... More >>

• Carbondale treehouse featured in Tiny Homes, Simple Shelter book

  published Feb 27, 2012

  Call it a high honor. In recent months, a painstakingly crafted kids' treehouse along the Roaring Fork River has become a local landmark of sorts for commuters making the Glenwood Springs-to-Aspen s... More >>

• Prisoners don't have a right to be read their rights, Supreme Court decides

  published Feb 24, 2012

  Somewhere Byron "Whizzer" White is smiling. The late, great University of Colorado football star and U.S. Supreme Court Justice never cared much for his colleagues' bleeding-heart Miranda decision bac... More >>

• Tara Perry and the Clemency Six: Where are they nowr

  published Feb 23, 2012

  It was almost three years ago that I first got interested in the case of Tara Perry, subject of this week's feature, "The Girl Who Fell to Earth." Perry was among several inmates considered strong ca... More >>

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  Video: Tara Perry on boyfriend Randy Miller's rampage and suicide

  published Feb 22, 2012

  Tara Perry, the subject of this week's cover story, "The Girl Who Fell to Earth," has made a remarkable turnaround since she was first incarcerated thirteen years ago, at the age of sixteen. Correctio... More >>

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  Sixteen-year-old Tara Perry followed her man into crime and madness

  published February 23, 2012

  They know how to make an entrance, these bad boys. They strut into the King Soopers on Smoky Hill Road on a Friday evening in May like it's... More >>

• Water wars: Rally asks John Hickenlooper to fix "river-killing" diversion project

  published Feb 21, 2012

  Despite concerns raised by the EPA and alarms sounded in a state report, Colorado officials are moving forward with a plan to divert more water from the Upper Colorado River to the Front Range -- whic... More >>

• Ken Salazar's "squeeze" budget still subsidizes grazing on public lands

  published Feb 20, 2012

  In these lean times, last week Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar proposed slashing costs and hiking a range of user fees -- everything from the cost of a federal stamp for duck hunting to oil and ... More >>

• Inmate rape resolution to be shared over objections of private prison giant

  published Feb 17, 2012

  A former prisoner, now a shareholder in the country's largest for-profit prison operator, has won a battle with company management over his campaign to hold the Corrections Corporation of America acco... More >>