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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Adopted for a Hug
The guards always noticed the kiss.
The guards always noticed the kiss. At the end of every visit, Courtney and her brother leaned in for a goodbye that lingered too long, and the officers looked at each other sideways.
From the Archives: In This Texas Prison, Solitary Confinement Equals Sexual Exploitation
The following is an excerpt from a piece published in The Marshall Project in March 2025, written by Kwaneta Harris with Deborah Zalesne. Read the full story here.
Illustration by Laura Lannes for The Marshall Project
People call m...
Preface from “Best Practices in Defending Women and Gender Minorities”
The following is a preface written by Kwaneta for “Best Practices in Defending Women and Gender Minorities,” a legal manual published by the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide in July 2025.
You don’t know what you don’t k...
Faith in Prison Comes With a Test—But Only If You’re Indigenous
There’s a question I can’t stop asking, and Texas prison officials have never given me an answer that survives contact with common sense. Why does a person incarcerated in this state have to pass a written test to observe Native American re...
From the Archives: Working in Prison Fields Didn’t “Correct” Me, It Revealed the System’s Brutality
The following is an excerpt from an essay by Kwaneta published in 2022. You can read the full essay in Truthout.
This essay won the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize in 2022.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) missi...
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