The Daughter the Criminal Legal System Failed, and the Mother Who Never Did
Burying your child is a nightmare from which no parent ever fully wakes. Burying your child who died in prison is something worse than a nightmare Kwaneta Harris for Prism…
Weaponized Compliance: Tear Gas in Women’s Prisons
By Kwaneta Harris / Prism The first time they gassed us, I was reading in my cell. It was 2009, and I had just arrived in prison. There was no…
The Hell Inside Hell: Solitary Confinement in Texas Hides the Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls
By Kwaneta Harris / Scalawag This essay discusses sexual abuse against adults and minors in the prison system. It also describes instances of suicide and self harm. I have called…
‘I wasn’t sentenced to be cooked’: Heat desperation in a Texas prison
Politicians in Texas denied air conditioning for prisons in May. Now temperatures of 100 F and higher are killing incarcerated people.