PRISON

Solitary Watch  -Kwaneta Harris, an award-winning incarcerated journalist and our newest Contributing Writer, delves into her experience of coping with solitary confinement-related trauma. After eight and a half years of living in solitary, Harris returned to the general prison population. Riddled with survivor’s guilt, and without the benefit of any kind of transitional programming, she struggled to teach her body and mind to exist in a less confined space. In the end, she concludes: “Now I realize the only solution for coping with the trauma from solitary isn’t a program. It’s never to go there in the first place.”