Alan Prendergast
Alan Prendergast has been writing for Westword for over thirty years. He teaches journalism at Colorado College; his stories about the justice system, historic crimes, high-security prisons and death by misadventure have won numerous awards and appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies.
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19 days ago | CrimeSentenced to life in prison for a crime that occurred when he was seventeen, Jeff Johnson is one of the first of Colorado's juvie lifers to be released.
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1 month ago | Colorado HistoryA group of social justice activists seeks to bring renewed attention to Colorado's long-buried history of lynchings — and to confront one particularly shocking and grotesque episode.
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3 months ago | NewsThe Colorado Department of Corrections will spend $41 million over two years to provide life-saving drugs to 2200 prisoners who've been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C.
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3 months ago | NewsColorado's longest-running land dispute enters a new round of lawyerly arguments this week, sixteen years after an historic court decision that awarded to hundreds of Costilla County residents rights of access to a mountain property that their anc...
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3 months ago | CrimeA juror in the Michael Blagg murder trial last spring has filed a lawsuit against his employer, claiming that his supervisors pressured him to find a way to duck jury service — and retaliated against him after he spent six weeks on the panel that ...
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3 months ago | BusinessThousands of former au pairs are part of a class-action suit filed in Denver.
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