Kwaneta Harris

Kwaneta Harris is a former nurse, business owner, and now incarcerated journalist from Detroit. Her writing has appeared in a range of publications including This American Life, Rolling Stone and Teen Vogue. She writes on Substack at Write or Die.

Kwaneta Harris writes about

State Power Bodies, Gender & Health Culture, Media & Education Bodies, Gender & Health State Power Land, Labor & Extraction State Power Land, Labor & Extraction State Power Bodies, Gender & Health Land, Labor & Extraction State Power

The daughter the criminal legal system failed, and the mother who never did

Kwaneta Harris
The daughter the criminal legal system failed, and the mother who never did

The controlled information ecosystem of American incarceration

Kwaneta Harris
The controlled information ecosystem of American incarceration

Weaponized compliance: Tear gas in women’s prisons

Kwaneta Harris
Weaponized compliance: Tear gas in women’s prisons

Cooked in custody: Four incarcerated people describe dangerous conditions in Texas state prisons

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digital collage with orange background and an illustration of hands gripping bars with a thermometer on the right side

‘It never warms up’: Surviving extreme cold in Texas prisons

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color photograph of a blue picket sign with instructions for a freeze warning

‘I wasn’t sentenced to be cooked’: Heat desperation in a Texas prison

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digital collage on an orange background. the outline of the state of texas hovers on the left above barbed wire crossing over