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Author: Alan Prendergast
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351 stories found - 281 through 300
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    Con Heir

    Meet a truly dangerous prisoner. Literate. Political. Published. His teacher: the Birdman of Alcatraz.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: July 10, 1997

    James Carey is in the hole again. He moves slowly into the visitors' room, hands cuffed and tethered to his waist, his stride reduced to a shuffle by the shackles around his...

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    Singing Like a Canary: The Birdman's Caged Book

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: July 10, 1997

    Charles Dudley Martin was just starting his law career when he came across the Thomas Gaddis book Birdman of Alcatraz. The Springfield, Missouri, attorney was so impressed by...

  3. News

    Safely Behind Bars

    Prison life didn't suit prominent inmate activist Fidel Ramos, but parole was even worse.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: July 3, 1997

    Twenty years ago, Fidel Ramos found the living conditions in Canon City's "Old Max" penitentiary so appalling that he sued the state, charging that the Department of...

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    Story Time

    How the bizarre child-abuse investigation of a school counselor became a crusade against troublesome parents -- courtesy of the Colorado Education Association.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: June 12, 1997

    The town of Laporte sits on the edge of the Roosevelt National Forest, its back turned to the interstate a few miles away, and that's how it should be. Fewer than ten miles...

  5. News

    Give Till It Hurts

    Through the valley of debt with Pastor Charles E. Blair.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: June 5, 1997

    You've got to hand it to Charles E. Blair. Thousands of people did, to their everlasting regret. This Sunday, June 8, Blair will celebrate fifty years as the pastor and...

  6. Feature

    Carving a Niche

    From body bags to gang shootings, artist Bill Potts has seen the horror--and held on to the dream.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: May 22, 1997

    Bill Potts gets along with just about everybody. Still, there was a woman at an art show in Boulder who managed to curl his lip. A sculptor who carves vivid, exaggerated...

  7. News

    Liar, Liar

    A top DEA informant makes cases--and $200,000 a year--while breaking a few laws himself.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: May 8, 1997

    In the fall of 1995, Kenneth Allen Coleman made the mistake of his life. Flush with cash from an insurance settlement, the 28-year-old parolee got mixed up with a flashy dope...

  8. News

    A Hard Line on the High Line

    Denver's plans for a popular trail are paved with good intentions--and concrete.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: April 24, 1997

    Like a lot of residents of southeast Denver, Judy LaMar has come to embrace the High Line Canal trail as a refuge from the urban madness. Joggers and strollers, horseback...

  9. Feature

    The Hundred Years War: A Century of Red Ink and Bad Press

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: April 10, 1997

    1895--Local curio magnate Harry Tammen and Kansas scoundrel Frederick Bonfils buy the fledgling Denver Evening Post for $12,500 and start shaping it into a lurid, red-headline...

  10. Feature

    All the News That Fits

    What gets lost in the heat of Denver's newspaper battle.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: April 10, 1997

    From the moment he flew into town early last year, Dennis Britton noticed something strange about Denver's daily newspapers. A former editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, soon...

  11. News

    Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been...?

    A party leader's "affiliation" comes under fire in the state GOP chairman's race.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: March 20, 1997

    Sam Zakhem has this to say about Steve Curtis: "I don't think he knows the truth when he stumbles over it." And Steve Curtis has this to say about Sam Zakhem: "He called me...

  12. News

    The Pen Is Mightier Than the Pen

    Prison censors' motto: What you don't know can't hurt us.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: March 20, 1997

    What's prison life without Prison Life? Imagine a full-service broker without his Wall Street Journal, a Park Avenue publishing executive without her New Yorker, a...

  13. News

    It's the Rail Thing

    For some Lakewood homeowners, RTD's proposed light-rail line looms too close for comfort.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: March 13, 1997

    Saving already broken ground on an expansion of Denver's light-rail line south to Littleton, the Regional Transportation District now has its sights set on another ten-mile...

  14. Feature

    Nightmare on the Net

    A web of intrigue surrounds the high-stakes legal brawl between FACTnet and the Church of Scientology.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: March 6, 1997

    Strange things happen around Lawrence Wollersheim. His businesses collapse. His Boulder apartment gets raided by federal marshals, his computers seized. When college...

  15. News

    Thanks a Lot, PAL

    Other summer-league organizers cry foul over the city's new park-permit policy toward the Police Athletic League.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: February 13, 1997

    For 28 years, Denver's Police Athletic League has honed the athletic skills of inner-city youth and taught them the value of competition and fair play. But when it comes to...

  16. News

    Caught Off Guard

    Sex harassment in the state prison system is no joke. So why is this man laughing?

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: February 6, 1997

    From the look of things, everybody had a grand time at the farewell party held last March at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility for departing deputy warden Joe Paolino....

  17. News

    How to Impress the Ladies: A Prison Guard's Guide

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: February 6, 1997

    According to former corrections officer Sandra Haberman, the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility at Ordway was a hotbed of innuendo, threats and crude come-ons directed at...

  18. News

    Moving Violation

    A local mover and shirker hauls a load to bankruptcy court--for the sixth time.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: January 30, 1997

    When civil rights activist Judith Lee Berg had an opportunity to work in Atlanta three years ago, she didn't think twice about renting out her Denver home and making a...

  19. Feature

    Party Crasher

    Back from the abyss, Sam Zakhem campaigns for the forgotten man: himself

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: January 16, 1997

    Sam Zakhem casts a hungry eye on the milling bodies in the halls of the State Capitol. The press conference room is filling up nicely, but the crowd is mostly made up of...

  20. Feature

    Please Release Me

    Colorado faces a boom in parolees--and rising evidence that parole isn't working.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: January 9, 1997

    Three days a week, the blue bus from Canon City pulls up at the corner of Smith Road and Peoria and discharges a stream of men dressed in cheap polyester suits. The men are...

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