🚨We're so excited to announce the launch of “A Prison Writer’s Guide to Media Writing,” a first-of-its-kind journalism handbook for incarcerated writers.

prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/04/17/fir…

We've announced the grand prize winner of NY Public Library's Freedom to Read Writing Contest! Congratulations to Tara—read her winning essay at Teen Vogue. ✨✨

Prisoners in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse apnews.com/article/solar-…

jacobin.com/2024/02/prison…

If you're attending #PLA2024 in Columbus, save the date for a site visit for librarians with the Returning Artists Guild, an arts collective composed of formerly incarcerated people. Thurs Apr 4, 12:30 pm. View studios & meet with the founders! thereturningartistsguild.org

Prison Journalism Project has published work by more than 710 writers, poets and artists in 40 states, Canada and the United Kingdom. You can read the biographies of our writers and their stories as they introduce themselves.

Meet the Writers: prisonjournalismproject.org/our-writers/

You can order your free print copy now!
tinyurl.com/2024connections

Join Harry Belafonte NYPL on Wed Feb 28th at 5pm for a screening of the documentary Preschool to Prison
preschooltoprisondocumentary.com.

Followed by a discussion of the “preschool to prison pipeline” with filmmakers Dr. KB and Edwin Walker.

Register: nypl.org/events/program…

I’m an incarcerated journalist. Today Securus, a predatory prison communication co, silenced journalists. With no warning they deleted all drafts of writing. Years of work. Manuscripts. Articles. Everything gone. We’re no longer able to save drafts. Now near impossible to write.

This Thursday online at 6:30 EST!! Please join Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine and myself for an urgent conversation on the politics of political repression and Black struggle with Adam Elliott-Cooper (@adamec87), Charisse Burden-Stelly (@blackleftaf), and Lerone A. Martin (@DirectorMLK).

NEW:
The odds that an incarcerated person eligible for parole will be granted release have plummeted in recent years. Releases are down 59% in Louisiana, 56% in NJ, 46% in Pennsylvania, 39% in Colorado (data from 2019-2022).

Read more in our report: prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/10/1…

TODAY! Zine Fair for a rainy day!! 🌧️📖

Take Action Day! 📢This Saturday. A part of this beautiful show, Return to Sender: Prison as Censorship.
Make buttons, learn, find your people The People's Forum 10/7 noon-6pm!!
Register here: RTSAction2023.eventbrite.com

Here is how much people in 43 states are forced to pay to send ONE electronic message to an incarcerated loved one. (Typically, there is a character limit, and one message isn't enough.)

In the 14 states that have banned physical mail, it's virtually the only option.

This Thursday, 9/14! Please come see this inventive, important show about the Prison as Censorship!

Missouri prisons ban friends and family from sending books to prisoners kcur.org/news/2023-08-2…