Published Writing

The published writings of our inside members are a testament to resilience and resistance. 

Articles by Kwaneta Harris

After 10 Years, a Visit With My Mother and Son in a Texas Prison. Prison Journalism Project, November 18, 2025

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

Articles by Khaaliq Shakur

đź”— Khaaliq Shakur’s articles on Prison Journalism Project 

Articles by Xandan Gulley

Prison Heat, Columns, September 2025

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. 

Prison labor in Texas is modern-day slavery. 

12 years hostage: The hidden truth.