KWANETA HARRIS is a Senior Writer and Editor at Solitary Watch, an abolitionist feminist, and an incarcerated journalist. As a mother and former nurse, she holds a personal commitment to illuminating how the experience of being incarcerated uniquely impacts women. When she is not writing, Harris shares liberatory knowledge on reproductive justice with the other women in her unit. In addition to being a Ridgeway Reporting Project grant recipient, Harris is a 2026 Galaxy Changemaker Fellow, a 2025 Movements Against Mass Incarceration Social Change Fellow, and a former Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow. In 2025, the Society of Professional Journalists and Prison Journalism Project named her Prison Journalist of the Year at the annual Stillwater Awards. Harris's journalism has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, The Marshall Project, Scalawag, Prism, The Appeal, and Teen Vogue, among others. Harris is also a co-author of the book Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement and is working on a book about the teenagers who were her neighbors during the nearly nine years she spent in adult solitary confinement. VALERIE KIEBALA is managing editor of Solitary Watch. She formerly served as communications director of Straight Ahead, which is building a decarceration movement throughout Pennsylvania. Her work has also appeared in The Root, Truthout, the Chicago Reporter, and Shadowproof.