Prison Journalism Project is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in April 2020 to train incarcerated writers to be journalists and publish their stories.
[5] One of its contributing writers, Steve Brooks, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison became the first incarcerated writer to win an individual award in the print category of Society of Professional Journalist's Northern California Chapter's 2020 Excellence in Journalism Award for two opinion essays published on Prison Journalism Project.
[7][1][8] When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Kane and Pasha saw how little information was coming out of prisons about situations inside, so they started a publication on Medium[9] in April 2020 to publish experiences and dispatches about the coronavirus’ impact on incarceration.
[11] In September 2022, PJPxInside received the Community Champion Award in the small newsroom division from the Institute of Nonprofit News.
[13] In April 2021, it partnered with the Society of Professional Journalists to create the first national virtual incarcerated chapter.