American Purgatory was awarded an honorable mention award from the American Bar Association. It was the only award in the 2009 radio category. The Silver Gavels recognize work that fosters public understanding about the law.

Here’s more: http://www.abanet.org/publiced/gavel/win09.shtml

We’ve put up a video/slideshow version of the documentary. You can watch Part 1 here on Youtube (in three parts) . While it’s not truly multi-media, as we did not take photos during the project, we hope it adds in a few visual elements that might enrich your experience of the documentary, like some photos of detention centers, screen shots of the various documents we talk about, and more.

Take a look/listen and let us know what you think: rate the slideshow on Youtube, or put up a comment… and share it far and wide!

Click here for file 2 and here for file 3.

So far only Part 1 has been made visual. Part 2 will hopefully be done soon.