Incarcerated Members Published Work
Articles by Kwaneta Harris
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
Essay contribution to Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing, Published in 2022
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
Harmful Healthcare, Published by Syracuse University in Mend Journal in 2023
Free Our Mamas contribution, Published by Muchacha Fanzine in summer 2023
Let’s Abolish Systems That Criminalize and Punish Survivors of Abuse, Published with Leigh Goodmark by Truthout on January 20th, 2023
Criminalized Survivors Face Judgement and Abuse From Their Own Defense Attorneys, Published with Leigh Goodmark by Truthout on June 19th, 2023
‘I wasn’t sentenced to be cooked’: Heat desperation in a Texas prison, Published by Prism on July 12th, 2023
Texas Prisons are Unbearably Hot. I Live In One, Published by Dallas Morning News on July 22nd, 2023
Facing the Climate Crisis from a Texas Prison Cell, Published by the Appeal on July 28th, 2023
My Neighbors in Solitary, Published by Slate on August 2nd, 2023
Book Review: ABOLITION. FEMINISM. NOW., Published by Study and Struggle in fall of 2023
“Code words to say what can’t be said”: Kwaneta Harris and James Hannaham on Queerness and the Silencing of the Incarcerated, Published by LitHub on September 5th, 2023
Summer Heat Is Killing Incarcerated People — It’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Published with Leigh Goodmark by Truthout on September 12th, 2023
In Here, in Prison, Rats are Treated as Children, Published by Mangoprism on September 22nd, 2023
Censoring Women’s Health, Published by Inquest on October 19th, 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)
Inside Voices, Published by Lux Magazine for its Fall 2023 issue
What 24 Hours Looks Like in Three Prisons, Published by Slate on December 14th, 2023
Young Women in Prison Don’t Have Information on Sex Ed, Reproductive Health, Published by Teen Vogue on December 15th, 2023
Stillness Is My Nemesis, Published by Solitary Watch on March 21st, 2024
It Never Warms Up: Surviving Extreme Cold in Texas Prisons, Published by Prism on April 1st, 2024
Incarcerated Women in Texas Need to Be Heard, Published by the Austin Chronicle on March 29th, 2024
Boiling on the Inside, Published by Scalawag Magazine on April 11th, 2024
Mamas Gonna Mama, No Matter Where they At, Published by The Appeal on May 8th, 2024
The Hell Inside Hell, Published by Scalawag Magazine on May 30th, 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
The Wages of Inequality — Behind Bars, Published by Texas Observer on July 18th, 2024
‘True Crime’ Shows Exploit and Lie About Women Like Me, Published by The Appeal on July 24th, 2024
Cooked in Custody: Four incarcerated people describe dangerous conditions in Texas state prisons, Published by Prism on September 11, 2024
Many Women Can Get Around Abortion Bans. Not Some of Us. Published by Slate on September 18, 2024
Contributed to They wrote a book while locked in solitary confinement. Texas won’t let them read it, Published by The Guardian on October 11, 2024
‘We the People’ Includes We the Incarcerated, Published by Prison Journalism Project and Reckon on October 16, 2024
Peri-Tales Podcast Interview, Published October 23, 2024
What Incarcerated People Want Voters to Remember, Published by The Appeal on November 4, 2024
Menopause in a Prison Cell, October 2023 print issue of In These Times Magazine, published digitally November 12, 2024
Prison is Not Menopause Friendly: Be Prepared to Self Advocate, Fall 2024 print and digital issue of Prison Health News (pg. 10)
Invisible Chains: One Woman’s Transition Out of Solitary Confinement in a Texas Prison, Published by Solitary Watch on December 19, 2024
Articles by Khaaliq Shakur
🔗 Khaaliq Shakur’s articles on Prison Journalism Project
Articles by Xandan Gulley
A cry for help from an incarcerated trans man in Texas. Retrieved from https://www.intomore.com/culture/a-cry-for-help-from-an-incarcerated-trans-man-in-texas/
Prison labor in Texas is modern-day slavery. Prism Reports. Retrieved from https://prismreports.org/2024/06/10/prison-labor-texas-modern-day-slavery/
12 years hostage: The hidden truth. Substack. Retrieved from https://blacklipstick.substack.com/p/12-years-hostage-the-hidden-truth