Building Abolition in the Prison Capital of Canada

Date

Thursday March 24, 2022
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location

Virtual

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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