Leveritt has been inducted into the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame. with documents obtained under FOI and extensive cooperation from IRS and state police investigators who watched activities at the airport for years, has contributed a wealth of new information.' The Arkansas State Library listed the book as a 'gem.' Awards

Leveritt's final book, All Quiet at Mena,' explored the little-known conflicts between police work and politics surrounding the company that hid Barry Seal's smuggling aircraft in Arkansas. 'powerful look at how the wrong agenda can thoroughly undermine the justice system.' Reviewers described Devil's Knot about prosecutions of the West Memphis Three, as 'a riveting portrait of a down-at-the-heels, socially conservative rural town with more than its share of corruption and violence' and 'an indictment of a culture and legal system that failed to protect children as defendants or victims.' The book was adapted for a feature film of the same name in 2013.ĭark Spell, a follow-up book about Jason Baldwin, one of the West Memphis Three, was called a Her book The Boys on the Tracks has been called 'a wrecking-ball tale of tragedy, malfeasance, and machine politics' and 'one of the most important examples of investigative journalism in modern Arkansas history.' In 1995, Leveritt left newspaper reporting to write in-depth about other cases she considered disturbing. By then, more than 1000 Canadians were infected with HIV from plasma traced to Arkansas prisons and another 20,000 were infected with hepatitis C. The program ended in 1994 and the prison director was forced to resign. In 1991, she broke the story that plasma drawn from Arkansas prisoners was being sold on the international market with inadequate screening for diseases. Mara Leveritt is an American investigative reporter focused on Arkansas. ( September 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as Reflinks ( documentation), reFill ( documentation) and Citation bot ( documentation). Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot.

Devil's Knot by Mara Leveritt