Dr. Paik's new book, Rightlessness: Testimony & Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II, grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. This talk focuses on both the bodily practices of and discourses surrounding prisoner practices of self-harm and the U.S. state's efforts to preserve life - in particular, its force-feeding of hunger strokers at the current Guantánamo camp. By interpreting the testimonies of hunger strikers, Paik examines the prisoner body as a site of power and struggle waged between the U.S. state and the prisoners, who attempt to seize their own form of habeas corpus by taking their bodies back from the camp regime.