Loretta Tofani (February 5, 1953, New York City) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.
[2] In 1982, while a staff writer at The Washington Post, she wrote a series of articles about a pattern of widespread gang rape inside a Prince George's County Maryland jail for which she won a 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
The victims were innocent, charged with drunk driving and shop lifting, in jail because they did not have enough money for bond.
[3] After nine years at The Washington Post, Tofani in 1987 became a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, serving as the paper's Beijing Bureau Chief from 1992 through 1996.
As a free-lancer in 2007, Tofani reported and wrote the newspaper series, "American Imports, Chinese Deaths."