Linda Mussell : Prison Tourism

2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar Linda Mussell published an article in The Conversation focusing on the ethical implications of Kingston’s prison tourism industry.

We need to bring more healing, memory and awareness to tourism development in Kingston — healing for those who were harmed by prisons, memory in order to accurately commemorate the institution and awareness about how some of those painful legacies continue in prisons today.

The full article is available here.

Linda Mussell is a doctoral candidate in political studies at Queen's University who is passionate about prison justice and decolonizing research. Her work is focused on breaking cycles of intergenerational incarceration in countries grappling with colonial legacies, specifically Canada, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.