Andrea Armstrong
Dr. Norman C. Francis Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law; Founder, IncarcerationTransparency.org
Andrea Armstrong is the Dr. Norman C. Francis Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she teaches incarceration law, constitutional law, criminal procedure and race and the law. A 2023 MacArthur Fellow, she founded IncarcerationTransparency.org, a database and website that documents and memorializes deaths behind bars in Louisiana and supports similar efforts across the U.S. Her research, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Stanford Law & Policy Review and others, focuses on the intersection of race and incarceration conditions, public oversight of detention facilities and carceral mortality, health care, and labor. Armstrong previously litigated prisoners’ rights issues as a Thomas Emerson fellow with David Rosen and Associates and was a research associate at the International Center for Transitional Justice.
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