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Humane Prison Hospice Project
A live, community conversation with Laura Musselman, from Humane Prison Hospice Project
The Humane Prison Hospice Project has spent nearly a decade working to change how incarcerated people are cared for at the end of life. Their work is in training incarcerated communities as peer hospice caregivers, bringing dignity and humanity back into a space that is often stripped of both. Join us for an hour-long conversation about what end-of-life care looks like behind bars, and what happens when incarcerated folks are taught palliative skills, crisis support, and how to hold space for eachother.
Co-led by:
Lauren Carroll & Laura Musselman
July 30 at 12pm mountain time
held on Zoom
recording available
Your hosts
Laura Musselman
Laura Musselman is the executive director of Humane Prison Hospice Project. She is also an end-of-life doula, writer, and former college instructor. With a background in philosophy, education, and trauma support, she brings both critical inquiry and practical grounding to her leadership. As the Executive Director of the Humane Prison Hospice Project, Laura focuses on strengthening community-based responses to serious illness and aging within correctional settings: models shaped by the people most impacted by incarceration. She works alongside incarcerated peer caregivers, correctional health teams, and local partners to build practical, relationship-centered pathways that expand dignity and accountability inside complex systems. Her leadership is grounded in the belief that care is not optional infrastructure, but a collective, societal responsibility.
Lauren Carroll
Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives. She lives on an urban farm at the base of a mountain where she tends to her animals, raises her two children, and dances around bonfires on the full moon with friends while listening to Nick Cave.
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