Raw dispatches from Texas women's prisons on how the intersection of gender, race and place contribute to state-sanctioned, gender-based violence.
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The following piece is both a cond...
Your Tax Dollars Pay For Prison Guards’ Haircuts and Laundry
Your tax dollars pay for prison guards to get haircuts and flat-ironed for free. And I promise you, that is only the beginning.
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Inside Texas Prisons, Women Smuggle Eyeshadow — and Risk Solitary — to ‘Feel Human’
This piece was originally published in The Barbed Wire, an independent Texas publication, in January of 2025. This is a corrected version—an earlier version misstated the charge for contraband in a correctional facility as a felony.
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In Russia, incarcerated people are fighting in a war. Would Texas women fight?
I expected the lifers to raise their hands first. That is what I keep thinking about, because this tells you everything wrong with what happened in the dayroom.
We were watching the news about the tension between the U.S. and Iran. You kno...
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