National Media Coverage of Project: The Indiana Women’s Prison History project has been written about in the New York Times, Slate, American Public Media, and many other outlets.
Strong media interest in project editor: Michelle Daniel Jones, the formerly incarcerated editor of the book project, has been profiled in the New York Times and elsewhere for her celebrated effort to gain entry into elite PhD programs following her release from prison; she is widely published in scholarly journals but this will be her first book.
Newsworthy: Backstory to project will be subject of major media profiles. The book is the long-awaited outcome of a celebrated effort by incarcerated historians.
Strong TNP Category: Criminal justice is among our strongest categories and we will leverage all of our institutional and media contacts to promote.
A-list endorsements: We are lining up blurbs from Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Piper Kerman, James Forman, Jr., Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and many others.