Laura Beach, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow the Department of Law & Legal Studies at Carleton University. Dr. Beach is a queer settler anthropologist and prisoner advocate with expertise in the areas of incarceration, mental health/illness, relations of care/caretaking, settler-colonialism, Indigenous–settler-state relations, critical legal studies, historiography, and ethnographic research methods. Dr. Beach’s doctoral research focused on relations of care within Saskatchewan’s carceral-corrections industry, drawing on twenty-two months of fieldwork, including participant observation, interviews with formerly incarcerated individuals and correctional staff, archival research, and personal insight as a volunteer guitar teacher and creative writing facilitator in federal and provincial prisons. Dr. Beach’s experience also includes frontline prisoner advocacy as a board member of the East Coast Prison Justice Society and as former coordinator of the society’s toll-free phone line for incarcerated persons in Nova Scotia.