Release Incarcerated Journalist Kwaneta Harris from Solitary Confinement
For eight years, incarcerated journalist Kwaneta Harris has been held in solitary confinement by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
In 2016, Kwaneta was placed in security detention — TDCJ’s official term for solitary confinement — for being an “escape risk.” Yet during her following years held here, she has never made an escape attempt or posed a safety risk to herself or others. Perhaps for this reason, the justification for her continued security detention has changed. At present, Kwaneta is being held in security detention because she is classified as “high profile” — a designation we believe is linked to her journalism on Texas prison conditions.
According to Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Administrative Segregation Plan, being “high profile” is not a legitimate reason to be held in long-term solitary confinement. Because Kwaneta does not meet any of the requirements or intended purposes for Security Detention, and because
she meets the criteria for release, we are demanding she is returned to the general prison population.
Kwaneta faces extreme and life-threatening conditions in solitary confinement, including highly restricted access to medical care, extreme heat, extreme cold, sexual abuse, and censorship. She reports on many of these issues from her cell, and is being punished for exposing the conditions threatening her and all women inside the Lane Murray Unit.
Please sign to demand that incarcerated journalist Kwaneta Harris is released from her wrongful incarceration inside solitary confinement, and that the TDCJ returns her to general population to finish her prison term.
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