Tony will be available for a Q&A and book signing after his lecture. Attendees are strongly encouraged to get advance tickets at: In 2015, Messenger was a Pulitzer finalist for his series of editorials on Ferguson, and won the Sigma Delta Chi award for best editorials of the year, given by the Society of Professional Journalists. That same year he won a National Headliner for editorial writing. 7, 2021 A Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist reports on how the American justice system has fallen critically out of balance. In 2016, Messenger was awarded a Missouri Honor Medal, the highest award bestowed by the University of Missouri's School of Journalism. PROFIT AND PUNISHMENT HOW AMERICA CRIMINALIZES THE POOR IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE by Tony Messenger RELEASE DATE: Dec. In 2019, Messenger won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his series of columns on debtors' prisons in Missouri. Louis Post-Dispatch, and author of Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the name of Poverty, his first book. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Messenger is the metro columnist for the St. Tony Messenger will speak on the topic of modern-day debtors' prisons, and how the American justice system punishes its poorest citizens financially. The Clark Lecture is an annual event which brings leaders of opinion and thought to the St. Louis is pleased to announce that Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Messenger is the 2022 Clark Lecturer. In This Episode: Clay is joined by Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and author of Profit and Punishment Tony Messenger to look at the ways our criminal justice system has prioritized money, punishment and power over lives during a time when we are finally reevaluating the way our country pursues justice.

Profit and Punishment by Tony Messenger