Prison Journalism Project Launches Prison Newspaper Project on WordPress
The Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a non-profit organization founded in April 2020, trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories with the goal of empowering them to be a vital voice in criminal justice reform. Over the past three years, the project has published over 1,700 pieces of work from more than 600 incarcerated and incarceration-impacted writers representing 180 prisons across 35 states and three countries. The project is bringing important issues to light, such as diminishing access to programs that further rehabilitation due to COVID-19 and the failure of drug treatment in prisons, first-hand accounts from incarcerated individuals that expose the inadequacy of state and federal prisons to meet the needs of those in their care. These stories and more are featured on the organization’s website, which is powered by WordPress and Newspack, a project from Automattic that provides a publishing platform for small and medium-sized news organizations. Newspack includes professionally designed themes and a set of pre-configured plugins, like Newspack Newsletters and WooCommerce Subscriptions, that help drive audience and revenue. This week the PJP launched the Prison Newspaper Project, which aims to connect prison publications with a broader general audience, including educators and researchers. At its…
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