Lynne does this work without compensation. She receives no sentence reduction, no credits toward parole consideration. The prison extracts her labor and her psychological well-being while offering nothing in return except the brittle satisfaction of knowing she may have kept someone alive for one more shift.
Kwaneta Harris
Kwaneta Harris is a former nurse, business owner, and expat, now an incarcerated journalist and Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow. In her writing, she illuminates how the experience of being incarcerated in the largest state prison in Texas is vastly different for women in ways that directly map onto a culture rooted in misogyny. Her stories expose how the intersection of gender, race, and place contribute to state-sanctioned, gender-based violence.
Harris’ writings have appeared in a wide range of publications including Solitary Watch, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, The Marshall Project, Scalawag, Prism, The Appeal, and Teen Vogue, among others. She writes on Substack at Write or Die.
