Email Author Randall Patterson

Awards

• 2009 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published October 9, 2008

  "Don't Nobody Cry"

• 2009 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published June 26, 2008

  "To Catch a Rapist"

• 2009 - Katie Awards, published June 26, 2008

  "To Catch a Rapist"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published June 26, 2008

  "To Catch a Rapist"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published November 27, 2008

  "Quality Assurance"

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2009 Stories by Randall Patterson

• Jail Misery

  published November 19, 2009

  On the last day of July, months after quitting his job as a cook on an offshore oil rig, Monte Killian was tooling around the Fourth Ward in... More >>

• Jail Hell

  published September 10, 2009

  Twice this summer, on mornings in June and August, I stood at the corner of Commerce and San Jacinto as the inmates came shuffling out of the... More >>

• A Child's Word

  published May 21, 2009

  When the victim showed up at the door, on a fall morning in 2006, nearly everyone wanted to help her. She was 14 years old and told the... More >>

• A Digital Bathroom Wall for Pat Lykos

  published January 29, 2009

  The new Harris County district attorney won election on promises of reform, and immediately afterward, snapped her staff to attention. Seven... More >>

• The Murderers' Defender

  published January 8, 2009

  In the 179th Criminal Court, in the courtroom of Judge Michael Wilkinson, it had become a matter of record that a Continental Airlines manager,... More >>