The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) has announced the winners of its 2004 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Awards. Included were a number of OSI Justice Fellows and Justice Fund grantees.

In the film category, the OSI-supported Big Mouth Productions won for Deadline, and Chance Films won for Juvies (produced and directed by Justice Media Fellow Leslie Neale). In the magazine category, Justice Media Fellow Mary Beth Pfeiffer won for her New York Times Magazine piece on the mentally ill in prison. Justice Fellow Jennifer Gonnerman won in the literary category for Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett. In the newspaper category, Mary Beth Pfeiffer again won, for a Poughkeepsie Journal piece on juvenile justice. In the theater category, OSI-grantee the Culture Project was recognized for The Exonerated.

The PASS Awards is the only national recognition of print and broadcast journalists, TV news and feature reporters, producers, and writers, and those in film and literature who try to focus America’s attention on the criminal justice system, juvenile justice system, and child welfare systems in a thoughtful and considerate manner.

NCCD established the PASS Awards to commemorate the media’s success in illuminating stories about people and programs that promise to protect children against neglect and abuse, and against involvement in crime.

For more information, visit the NCCD website: http://www.nccd-crc.org.