NPR Gets the Baton

The award is for excellence in broadcast journalism for a three-part investigative series revealing deep and costly flaws in the U.S. justice system’s bail bond process, it was announced today.  NPR Correspondent Laura Sullivan reported the story; Senior National Editor Steven Drummond edited it. As the story is described, “Bonding for Profit” exposed deep inequities in the treatment of rich and poor defendants, how the bail industry is vested in maintaining those inequities and the surprising cost to taxpayers.