New Season of The Girlfriends: Jailhouse Lawyer

Fifteen years ago, on 7th July 2010, Kelly Harnett said her abusive boyfriend murdered a man right in front of her. She said she was helpless to stop it, and terrified that she would be killed next. So how did she end up in prison for over a decade on a murder charge?

The global No. 1 podcast, The Girlfriends co-produced by Novel and iHeartPodcasts, returns wwith a brand new season; “Jailhouse Lawyer.”

Over 8 episodes, award winning journalist and host, Anna Sinfield, will trace her way through Harnett’s turbulent life, in search of a clean answer to a complicated question: Who is Kelly Harnett? If you ask Kelly, she’ll tell you she’s a dedicated friend and sister, a jailhouse lawyer and an aspiring DJ. Someone who witnessed her family torn apart by violence and addiction. Who, as an adult, fell into her own addictions and then into one violent relationship after another.

Until the most violent of all her partners murdered a man in front of her- before pinning the blame on her. For Harnett, all this crucial context is what makes her a victim but according to the justice system, she is simply… a murderer.

This story isn’t a whodunnit. It’s not even really about what happened. It’s about how a woman who was a victim of domestic violence became a villain in the eyes of the law.

Behind bars in a maximum security prison, Kelly Harnett spent over a decade fighting to prove her innocence. While inside, she taught herself the law from scratch, and became a jailhouse lawyer who fought on behalf of the women locked up alongside her. Women who, like Kelly, had tragic and complex stories. Many of whom had experienced horrific domestic violence before landing in prison.

“The Girlfriends: Jailhouse Lawyer” will get to the very heart of what it means to be both a victim, and a villain - and asks what happens when the line between the two starts to blur? What happens when the woman at the centre of a true crime story… survives?

Listen to season three of the series beginning July 14th, with episodes releasing weekly on Mondays, wherever you get your podcasts.