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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2013 Stories by Alan Prendergast

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  Club Vinyl lawsuit: Can venues be held liable for the actions of their bouncersr

  published Feb 25, 2013

  Six years ago, Janny Barizonte, a 24-year-old law student, headed with friends to Club Vinyl looking for fun. What she got instead changed her life, and not for the better: a painful altercation with ... More >>

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  Edward Montour case: Was inmate a "volunteer" for the death penaltyr

  published Feb 21, 2013

  In an unusual court hearing unfolding in Castle Rock, attorneys for Edward Montour Jr. are seeking to withdraw his guilty plea for the murder of a correctional officer in 2002, claiming that he was me... More >>

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  Clarkson zoning battle: Judge's ruling further muddles group home flap

  published Feb 18, 2013

  Last summer Denver District Judge Ann B. Frick ruled that city zoning officials blundered in issuing a rooming-house permit to Open Door Ministries, which was seeking to launch a group home for recove... More >>

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  Fracking secrecy: Judge orders BLM to reveal companies seeking to drill the North Fork Valley

  published Feb 15, 2013

  In what's being hailed as a major victory for community groups fighting fracking projects, a Denver federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management can no longer keep secret the identi... More >>

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  Pinon Canyon expansion battle: Will troop reductions help or hurtr

  published Feb 13, 2013

  As the Pentagon contemplates different ways to achieve reductions in force in the ramp-down from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, business leaders in Colorado Springs are pushing for a plan that would ac... More >>

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  Terrell Griswold: State reprimands prison doctor David Oba over inmate's death

  published Feb 12, 2013

  Most physicians go through their entire careers without ever running afoul of state regulators. But two years after a 26-year-old inmate with chronic kidney problems died while under his care, prison ... More >>

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  Drilling at Mesa Verde and Dinosaur National Monument: BLM boss backpedals after protests

  published Feb 11, 2013

  The director of Colorado's Bureau of Land Management office seems to be engaged in an elaborate game of chicken over the past few months. On several occasions, Helen Hankins has announced plans to auc... More >>

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  Rocky Mountain National Park's sheepish new logo is a ram job

  published Jan 30, 2013

  Here at the Wild-Urban Interface Desk, we're puzzling over the new logo just unveiled by Rocky Mountain National Park in celebration of its centennial, chosen two years early from close to a hundred e... More >>

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  Roan Plateau rethinking: Drilling delay prompts pouting, applause

  published Jan 29, 2013

  The Bureau of Land Management's decision late last week to seek additional environmental study of possible impacts of oil and gas exploration on the Roan Plateau has left energy interests fuming and s... More >>

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  Video: Homeless trout ("Anything helps") lobbies Denver Water to save Fraser River

  published Jan 28, 2013

  When you're battling an institution as powerful as Denver Water, it's best to have the will of the people, or at least a lot of average joes, on your side. Environmental groups trying to protect the U... More >>

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  Colorado's juvenile courts suffer from "benign neglect," new study claims

  published Jan 24, 2013

  A detailed study of Colorado's juvenile courts by a national coalition of attorneys who specialize in juvenile defense work describes the state system as plagued by turnover, case overload, confusion ... More >>

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  Fracking opponents' horror stories exaggerated, says FrackNation director in town tonight

  published Jan 22, 2013

  The hydraulic fracturing process involves pumping chemicals into the ground to free oil and gas reserves trapped in tight shale formations. The debate over fracking's environmental risks isn't all tha... More >>

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  The ten best books about America's prisons

  published Jan 16, 2013

  This week's cover story, "The Lifers Book Club," reports on the Words Beyond Bars Project, a pilot progam at the Limon Correctional Facility that puts high-security prisoners, many of them serving lif... More >>

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  Corbin Clay: Beetle-killed furniture startup wins $100,000 GQ contest

  published Jan 15, 2013

  When Denver craftsman Corbin Clay launched his own custom furniture company a few years back, he saw an opportunity to make stylish, affordable pieces out of an abundant resource: the vast stands of d... More >>

• Russian lit and combat tales make the reading list for the Limon prison book club

  published January 17, 2013

  The list of books discussed in the Words Beyond Bars Project, a pilot program at the Limon Correctional... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The lifers book club: Of mice and men, hopes and regrets at the Limon prison

  published January 17, 2013

  The prisoners report to the officer at the desk, then head into a room awash in sunlight in the visitation area of the Limon Correctional... More >>

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  Darrell Havens: Paralyzed inmate denied clemency, surgery

  published Jan 14, 2013

  His doctors have told Darrell Havens that surgery could help relieve his deteriorating condition, but the wheelchair-bound inmate's keepers in the Colorado Department of Corrections aren't exactly eag... More >>

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  Artist Jill Powers explores insects, climate change at show opening tonight

  published Jan 11, 2013

  Like pine beetles, Boulder artist Jill Powers does some of her best work in bark. Her mixed media fiber sculptures and installations draw on exotic natural materials, from seed pods to a tough inner b... More >>

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  Hentzell Park: Mayor Hancock forges ahead with open space land swap

  published Jan 03, 2013

  Despite an emphatic recommendation against the move by her advisory board, Denver Parks and Recreation manager Lauri Dannemiller has okayed Mayor Michael Hancock's plan to swap open space in the Cherr... More >>

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  Ongoing drought news great for beetles, bad for us

  published Jan 02, 2013

  It's now official: In some areas of Colorado, 2012 was the driest year since 2000. A late dump of snow in December has failed to take portions of the Western Slope and the southern part of the state o... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Kimmyan Franklin couldn't escape her uneasy past

  published January 3, 2013

  Take me up into your mind once or twice before I die (you know why: because the eyes of you and me will be full of dirt some day).... More >>