Criminal Justice

  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 15 2010

    For Their Own Good

    Photo: Edmund D. Fountain / St. Petersburg Times: Thirty-one graves, some u ...

    By Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore, Edmund D. Fountain, and Kelley Benham

    This six-part series reveals a century of abuse at Florida's oldest reform school in a haunting narrative. Originally published by the St. Petersburg Times between April and December, 2009, it is a winner of the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.

  • Dart Award Honorable Mention

    Apr 15 2010

    Hostages to Justice

    By Jeff Seidel, Regina H. Boone, Rick Nease, David Zeman, Kathy Kieliszewski, Susan Hall-Balduf, Steve Anderson, and Jason Karas

    This five-part series tells the story of female inmates of Michigan prisons as they endured years of sexual assault at the hands of guards. Originally published in January 2009 by the Detroit Free Press, received an honorable mention for the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Trauma.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 15 2009

    Beyond Rape: A Survivor's Story

    By Joanna Connors and Lisa DeJong

    A bold, groundbreaking, piece of journalism in which Joanna Connors turns her reportorial skills on her own sexual assault. Originally published in The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in May, 2008.

  • Behind the Story

    Jun 8 2004

    A Different Approach to a Murder Trial

    By Jesse Tarbert

    On Sept. 23, 2002, 18-year-old Rachel Rose Burkheimer was murdered by a group of men and buried in a field in the foothills of the Cascade mountains, east of Everett, Wash. In the months since, the grisly details of the murder have been covered extensively in area newspapers.

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