Steve Liss and Timothy Fadek each garnered awards in the "World Understanding" category of the
65th annual POYi Awards.

Liss garnered the top prize for his piece titled "Voices from Juvenile Detention: Kids Behind Bars,"
which chronicles the lives of juvenile offenders in pre-trial detention.

Fadek was honored with a Judges' Special Recognition award for his piece, "City of Missing Women,"
which chronicles the chilling story of women murdered on the U.S.-Mexico border in Juarez, Mexico.

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Voices from Juvenile Detention: Kids Behind Bars
Steve Liss

It sounds harmless: "pre-trial detention." But the reality is far different. In a squat block buildings
in Laredo, Texas and in Portland, Oregon - and in similar places around the nation - children await
trial or placement in concrete cells while the underlying issues that led to their behavior fester.
Some are addicts who need treatment; others are kids battling mental illnesses. Many are angry
and have been virtually abandoned by absentee or irresponsible parents.

City of Missing Women
Timothy Fadek

There is a saying in the area that, if you want to find Juarez, located just across the border from
El Paso, Texas, just follow the crosses. And there are a lot of them. 421 women, to be exact,
have been murdered in Juarez since 1993, and hundreds more women have disappeared.
Most of them fit a similar profile -- young women who came from other parts of the country to
work in the maquiladoras, the factories on the border that take advantage of Mexico's cheap labor
to produce goods for U.S. and international companies. Many of the women disappeared on their
way to or from work, perhaps while waiting for the buses that take them between the maquiladoras
and the shantytowns on the outskirts of town in the late-night or predawn hours.