The National Council on Crime and Delinquency gives yearly awards called the PASS Awards to folks working in print, literature, broadcast media, television, and film for helping to illuminate problems—and solutions—in the criminal and juvenile justice arena.
This year’s list of winners is both worthy and eclectic. It includes a particular episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, the terrific PBS film about a powerful prison gang, “Nuestra Familia, Our Family,” the painful but fascinating book, “Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison ” plus a special award to the producers of HBO’s brilliantly Dickensian series “The Wire”.…and a lot more.
The full list is after the jump,
2006 PASS Award Winners
Film
IFC Films
“Sherrybaby”
Laurie Collier
Literature
“Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison ”
T.J. Parsell
Don Weise
Magazine
In These Times
“Stunning Revelations”
Silja J. A. Talvi
Joel Bleifuss
Jessica Clark
In These Times
“No Room in Prison? Ship ‘Em Off”
Silja J. A. Talvi
Joel Bleifuss
Jessica Clark
Newspaper
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
“Prison Seen as a Powder Keg”
Charlie Frago
Bob Wigginton
Oakland Tribune/Media News Group
“Locked Up Potential”
Momo Chang
Mike Oliver
Ray Chaves
Gina Halferty
Omaha World-Hearld
“The Con Game”
Karyn Spencer
Patuxent Publishing Co.
“On His Own”
Mary T. Robbins
Jeffrey Furticella
Angela Bornemann
David Sturm
Phoenix New Times
“Teenage Wasteland”
Amy Silverman
The Roanoke Times
“Online Predators”
Megan Schnabel
Laurence Hammack
Lindsey Mair
Reed Williams
Mike Allen
Amanda Codispoti
Andrew Svec
The Sacramento Bee
“CAR Crime”
Phillip Reese
Santa Barbara News-Press
“Combating Crime”
Dawn Hobbs
Mike Eliason
SF Weekly
“Get Out of Jail Free”
A.C. Thompson
Star Tribune
“Rethinking Juvenile Justice”
David Chanen
David Shaffer
Richard Tsong-Taatarii
Rene Sanchez
Westword
“All Grown Up”
Jessica Centers
Television/Video
California Connected
“Family Matters”
Bret Marcus
Angela Shelley
Michael Bloecher
Justine Schmidt
California Connected
“The Predator Next Door”
Bret Marcus
Coll Metcalfe
Lisa McRee
Michael Bloecher
Justine Schmidt
Center for Investigative Reporting
“Nuestra Familia, Our Family”
Oriana Zill de Granados
Julia Reynolds
David Ritsher
George Sanchez
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
“Fat”
Neal Baer
Dawn DeNoon
Jonathan Greene
Amanda Green
Patrick Harbinson
Tied to the Tracks Films/MSNBC
“Beyond Conviction”
Rachel Libert
Web
ESPN.com
“Outrageous Injustice”
Wright Thompson
Jay Lovinger
Kevin Jackson
Cynthia Faulkner
Women’s eNews
“Out of Jail, Mothers Struggle to Reclaim Children”
Angeli Rasbury
Special Award
For presenting a sophisticated and textured look at the dynamics of
urban crime, especially its impact on children
HBO
“The Wire”
David Simon
Edward Burns
Nina Kostroff Noble
Joe Chappelle
Karen Thorson