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When Silence Becomes a Weapon

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By Kwaneta Harris
| Solitary Watch
Women have been disappearing into America’s darkest rooms since long before anyone had the courage to call it torture. As legal journalist Jessica Pishko traced in her history of women’s prisons, the earliest institutions built to house women weren’t designed around rehabilitation or even punishment in any coherent sense. They were designed around control, shaped by rigid ideas about femininity, obedience, and moral deviance.
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At a Texas Prison Where Intimacy Is Banned, Wedding Bells Are Ringing Anyway

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By Kwaneta Harris
| Texas Metro News
Kwaneta Harris takes us inside surprising rituals where couples get hitched, and guests shed tears for the weddings on the outside that they’ve missed. By Kwaneta Harris The Marshall Project https://www.themarshallproject.org/ Olga Aleksandrova for The Marshall Project The invitation arrived folded in half, its edges soft from being passed hand to hand. When I opened it, hand-drawn wedding bells and butterflies spilled across the page in colored pencil.
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At a Texas Prison Where Intimacy Is Banned, Wedding Bells Are Ringing Anyway

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By Kwaneta Harris
| The Marshall Project Verified
The invitation arrived folded in half, its edges soft from being passed hand to hand. When I opened it, hand-drawn wedding bells and butterflies spilled across the page in colored pencil. And I realized I had a more urgent problem than any bride does: Who was I bringing as my plus-one? I am 50-something, single, incarcerated, and apparently still susceptible to the same pre-wedding panic as any person on the outside. I laid out two photographs on my bunk.
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