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'Driving transformation, shattering barriers: women leaders steering change management'
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Jin Ding 丁進
Yukari Iwatani Kane
Niketa Patel
🗽 Aimee Rinehart 🗽
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This year Prison Journalism Project contributors appeared in pubs like The Guardian, @ajenglish and Public Health Watch,@rollingstone. We ask for your help to continue our work of unlocking stories by incarcerated writers. We're looking to add 30 members in 48 hours. Join us: …njournalismproject.fundjournalism.org/prisonjournali…

a big tip of the hat to Monica Campbell for sharing Joe's draft, Vera Carothers for checking the facts, Vivian Cheng for making the copy sparkle, and Yukari Iwatani Kane Mason Bryan Wyatt Stayner at PJP. also to Joe's loved ones and advocates, whom he talks about all the time. 3/

So excited that this is out in the world! Please take a few minutes to read this amazing piece.

you're going to want to read this one. Joe Garcia writes about becoming a Swiftie while serving twenty years: newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Congrats to RJI Fellows Leezel Tanglao (2019-2020) and Yukari Iwatani Kane (2021-2022), who'll join the 2024 Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at Newmark J-School. journalism.cuny.edu/2023/08/announ…

So thrilled to have Prison Journalism Project’s Yukari Iwatani Kane in our new cohort! 🚀🔥💯💜

So proud of Ryan Moser Ryan Moser, who is showing the world that there's a career path from journalism inside prison to becoming a fully fledged journalist outside. Looking forward to working with him on the story!

Ten years ago, 29,000 people in California prisons staged a hunger strike. On day 60, the hunger strike officially ended when California lawmakers promised to hold legislative hearings about the use of solitary confinement. Story with The Appeal.

prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/07/25/how…

Laws that curb parole do not cut down on crime. But they do cause overcrowded prisons, staff shortages and a host of mental health problems.

prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/07/20/wis…

Building on data compiled by Prison Journalism Project, Prison Policy Init. scoured handbooks, prison policies, and laws governing every corrections department in the U.S. to discover how common are restrictions on prison journalism.

Check out the conclusion: prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/06/1…

'I was interviewed by NPR, & I was subsequently placed in long-term solitary confinement for several years as a result of the interview & my inside organizing.' prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/05/31/pri…

We’re curious: Do you prepare a risk assessment & plan for physical & psychological consequences before every assignment? 🤔

Our capstone story to our Aging in Prison package by Wyatt Stayner, who started this story two years ago before he joined Prison Journalism Project.

'I wish I could give something back to the people I harmed. I’ve tried to compensate by paying it forward. I’ve thought about what went wrong over the last decade. I’ve gained knowledge and life skills.'

prisonjournalismproject.org/2022/09/16/res…

Today in the newsroom #IStandWithEvan

So proud of Kate McQueen who created this directory with the help of our intern Max Grinstein and former The San Quentin News editor Kevin Sawyer.

The Prison Newspaper Directory finds that the number of prison-based papers is growing – by Hanaa' Tameez niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-pr… via NiemanLab

Donovan Diego works as a GED tutor at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater, where incarcerated students with disabilities have long faced discrimination and been denied special support and accommodations.

Read more: prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/03/13/min…

The struggle to get dentures, mammograms, pap smears, the fear of dying in prison, the fear of coming out with no resources and no safety net - these are just a sliver of the challenges people are facing in a system utterly unprepared to deal with an aging population.