Foreword : Life and other responsibilities / Joy James -- Introduction : Death and other penalties / Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, and Scott Zeman -- Excavating the sedimentations of slavery : the unfinished project of American abolition / Brady Heiner -- From commodity fetishism to prison fetishism : slavery, convict-leasing, and the ideological productions of incarceration / James A. Manos -- Maroon philosophy : an interview with Russell "Maroon" Shoatz / Russell "Maroon" Shoatz and Lisa Guenther -- In reality, from the row / Derrick Quintero -- U.S. racism and Derrida's theologico-political sovereignty / Geoffrey Adelsberg -- Making death a penalty : or, making "good" death a "good" penalty / Kelly Oliver -- Death penalty abolition in neoliberal times : the SAFE California Act and the nexus of savings and security / Andrew Dilts -- On the inviolability of human life / Julia Kristeva, translated by Lisa Walsh -- Punishment, desert, and equality : a Levinasian analysis / Benjamin S. Yost -- Prisons and palliative politics / Ami Harbin -- Sovereignty, community, and the incarceration of immigrants / Matt S. Whitt -- Without the right to exist : mass incarceration and national security / Andrea Smith -- Prison abolition and a culture of sexual difference / Sarah Tyson -- Statement on solitary confinement / Abu Ali Abdur'rahman -- The violence of the supermax : toward a phenomenological aesthetics of prison space / Adrian Switzer -- Prison and the subject of resistance : a Levinasian inquiry / Shokoufeh Sakhi -- Critical theory, queer resistance, and the ends of capture / Liat Ben-Moshe ... [and three others].