NOLA Media Group trumpets journalism award for prison series one day after firing majority of people who worked on it
June 13th, 2012
At this hour, NOLA.com is fronting a major journalism award it has received for its recent 8-part series “Louisiana INCarcerated,” which spotlighted conditions and financial incentives in the state’s Byzantine, for-profit prison system:
A team of Times-Picayune reporters was awarded the June “Sidney” award, a monthly journalism prize given out by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, for the newspaper’s recent eight-part special report on Louisiana’s highest-in-the-world incarceration rate.
The series, “Louisiana Incarcerated,” was reported by Cindy Chang, Jan Moller, Jonathan Tilove and John Simerman.…
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