“There is no question that this is the highest possible honor a book like this could ever receive,” said Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the winning author of the 2025 Inside Literary Prize—a book award judged exclusively by incarcerated readers. At an award ceremony for the Prize, Chain-Gang All-Stars author Adjei-Brenyah acknowledged the incarcerated judges and all those in prison across the country.