Author Bio: Xandan Gulley is a transgender (he/him) individual incarcerated under the legal name Britney Gulley in Texas who has spent time in solitary because of his gender identity and activism. Some of Xandan’s published work can be found in LGBTQ Nation, Black Lipstick, The Advocate, San Francisco Bayview, Prism, and Texas Letters.
A team of troops in black with combative shields and helmets blitzed into the shower area looking like servicemen in an army on the battlefield. The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. The smell of burning flesh filled the air. An inmate, a mother, who is housed in solitary confinement for mental health illnesses in the Lane Murray Unit in Gatesville, was left cooking on the shower floor.
To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons…