Building Abolition in the Prison Capital of Canada

Lisa Guenther is Queen’s National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies at Queen’s University in Canada. She is the author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (2013) and co-editor of Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration (2015). From 2012-17, she facilitated a discussion group with men on death row in Tennessee called REACH Coalition, and she was a member of the P4W Memorial Collective from 2018-21. She is currently working on a critical phenomenology of prison abolition and decolonization on Turtle Island.

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