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American journalist and author

Joseph T. "Joe" Hallinan is an American author and journalist for The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Sunday Times and The Wall Street Journal — on topics on topics ranging from medical malpractice to the criminal justice system and the associated prison industry in the United States.

While a journalist with The Indianapolis Star he and Susan M. Headden shared the 1991Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "for their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state." Hallinan was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

He has written Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation (2001).^[1]

Hallinan has taught at a number of American colleges and universities, and was most recently a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University.^[2] He has appeared on a variety of radio and television programs in the U.S.

and abroad, including NPR's Fresh Air with Teri Gross and The O'Reilly F