Incarcerated Members Published Work
Articles by Kwaneta Harris
As a Nurse Incarcerated in Texas, I See How Prison Health Care Fails Us All. Rolling Stone, October 26, 2023.
In Texas Prison, My Black Hair Brings a Sense of Identity—and Punishment. Cosmopolitan, April 23, 2025.
At My Texas Prison, Solitary Confinement All But Guarantees Sexual Exploitation by Guards, The Marshall Project, March 10, 2025
Invisible Chains: One Woman’s Transition Out of Solitary Confinement in a Texas Prison, Published by Solitary Watch on December 19, 2024
Menopause in a Prison Cell, October 2023 print issue of In These Times Magazine, published digitally November 12, 2024
What Incarcerated People Want Voters to Remember, Published by The Appeal on November 4, 2024
Many Women Can Get Around Abortion Bans. Not Some of Us. Published by Slate on September 18, 2024
‘True Crime’ Shows Exploit and Lie About Women Like Me, Published by The Appeal on July 24th, 2024
The Wages of Inequality — Behind Bars, Published by Texas Observer on July 18th, 2024
I Fought for Air Conditioning in Solitary Confinement — Now I Have to Do It Again, Published by the Austin Chronicle on June 14th, 2024
Mamas Gonna Mama, No Matter Where they At, Published by The Appeal on May 8th, 2024
Incarcerated Women in Texas Need to Be Heard, Published by the Austin Chronicle on March 29th, 2024
Young Women in Prison Don’t Have Information on Sex Ed, Reproductive Health, Published by Teen Vogue on December 15th, 2023
In solitary confinement, banned books are a lifeline, Published by the Boston Globe and The Emancipator on October 23rd, 2023 - a 2024 winner of an Edward R. Murrow Award (recognized with The Emancipator’s 2023 Prison Banned Books Week Series)
My Neighbors in Solitary, Published by Slate on August 2nd, 2023
Facing the Climate Crisis from a Texas Prison Cell, Published by the Appeal on July 28th, 2023
Texas Prisons are Unbearably Hot. I Live In One, Published by Dallas Morning News on July 22nd, 2023
Forbidden Knowledge, Published by PEN America on September 15th, 2022 and a contribution to Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement in 2023 by University of Georgia Press
Working in Prison Fields Didn’t “Correct” Me, It Revealed the System’s Brutality, Published by Truthout on August 15th, 2022 — a 2022 winner of the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
Articles by Khaaliq Shakur
🔗 Khaaliq Shakur’s articles on Prison Journalism Project
Articles by Xandan Gulley
The world left me behind: decades in prison and I didn’t know how to use a computer, shado, March 2025
An Inside Look at Taser Use in Texas Prison, Texas Observer, March 2025
A cry for help from an incarcerated trans man in Texas.