Radley Balko reports on criminal justice, the drug war and civil liberties for The Washington Post .
He lives in Nashville, where he also writes about the city\'s music and culture..
Press Club\'s Journalist of the Year award, the NACDL\'s Champion of Justice Award, the Innocence Project\'s Journalism Award, and the Bastiat Prize for Journalism.
He has won the L.
A.
Supreme Court, and by the Mississippi Supreme Court and two federal appeals courts.
His work has been cited twice by the U.
S.
He is also co-author of the acclaimed book The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South .
He was previously a writer and investigative reporter at the Huffington Post, and a reporter and editor for Reason magazine.
Radley Balko reports on criminal justice, the drug war and civil liberties for The Washington Post