Late Guardian prisons correspondent receives outstanding journalism award

Eric Allison worked for the Guardian for 19 years after a life as a career criminal. Photograph: Frank Baron/The Guardian

The former Guardian prison correspondent Eric Allison, who died this month, has won the outstanding journalism award at a Criminal Justice Alliance ceremony in Birmingham.

Allison, who worked for the Guardian for 19 years, was named as one of two winners alongside the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.