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.