Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national initiative that trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories, today launched “Cancer in Confinement,” a landmark series exploring why cancer outcomes are worse inside U.S. prisons than in the free world. Informed by more than 50 firsthand accounts from incarcerated writers across the country, the series shines a light on a public health crisis fueled by systemic neglect and barriers to care.
Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national nonprofit that trains incarcerated writers in journalism and publishes their stories, today released its 2025 Impact Report showcasing record growth, national recognition and deepening impact since the organization’s launch in 2020, including major gains in literacy rates for incarcerated individuals.
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national initiative that trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories, are proud to announce the launch of the third annual SPJ-PJP Stillwater Prison Journalism Awards.
Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national nonprofit that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories, has entered into a groundbreaking partnership to offer its training materials through Edovo, which delivers tablet-based educational, vocational, and rehabilitative curricula to incarcerated individuals in the United States.
The Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national initiative that trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories, are proud to announce the second annual SPJ-PJP Stillwater Prison Journalism Awards.
Prison Journalism Project announced the launch of a “Prison Writer’s Guide to Media Writing,” a first-of-its-kind handbook and certificate program designed to educate prison writers about journalism.
Prison Journalism Project announced the launch of a “Prison Writer’s Guide to Media Writing,” a first-of-its-kind handbook and certificate program designed to educate prison writers about journalism.
Betts is a poet, lawyer and the Founder and CEO of Freedom Reads, an initiative out of the Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory to radically transform the access to literature in prisons.
The centerpiece of the project is a first-of-its-kind digital directory of operational prison publications and will serve as a living document to catalogue prison reporting over time.
Prison Journalism Project has received the Community Champion Award in the small newsroom division from the Institute of Nonprofit News (INN) for its printed newspaper PJPxInside.
Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national initiative that trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories, today launched the Prison Journalism Navigator. This new database provides tools, resources and unique insights aimed at spurring greater collaboration between external media outlets and incarcerated writers.
Prison Journalism Project has been awarded an inaugural grant from The Just Trust, a new grantmaking initiative dedicated to reforming the criminal justice system.
The Institute for Nonprofit News recognized Prison Journalism Project co-founder and co-executive director Yukari Kane as one of 13 leaders with potential to reinvent independent news.
The Society of Professional Journalists is partnering with PJP to create a national, virtual chapter of incarcerated journalists serving time in corrections facilities across the country.
The Missouri Journalism School’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) named Prison Journalism Project co-founder and co-executive director Yukari Kane as one of its eight 2021-2022 fellows.
