Keynote Speech: Andrea Armstrong

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 05:15 pm to 06:45 pm UTC-06:00

Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs - Bass Lecture Hall | Austin

The LBJ School of Public Affairs
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Keynote Speech: Andrea Armstrong
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Andrea Armstrong's Keynote speech. Part of the Pr*son and J*il Innovation Lab's Deaths in Custody Conference.
About this Event

Professor Andrea Armstrong, a 2023 MacArthur "Genius Award" Fellow, will be speaking about the need for more transparency about deaths in Louisiana's prisons and jails and the importance of telling the stories of the people behind the tragic statistics.

The event is the opening keynote address of the Pr*son and J*il Innovation Lab's multi-day conference on "Deaths in Custody" and is the only portion of the conference that is open to the public.

Public seats at this keynote event are very limited.

*If you are participating in the Deaths in Custody Conference, you do not need to register for this keynote separately. Your spot is already reserved. **


Andrea Armstrong is a 2023 MacArthur “Genius Award” Fellow and the Dr. Norman C. Francis Distinguished Professor at Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law, where she teaches incarceration law, constitutional law, criminal procedure, and race and the law. She is a leading expert on incarceration conditions who has dedicated her career to shedding light onto incarceration practices in the United States. Prof. Armstrong founded IncarcerationTransparency.org, a database and website that documents and memorializes individual deaths behind bars in Louisiana and supports documentation efforts in South Carolina and Alabama. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on carceral mortality, healthcare, and labor; the intersection of race and conditions of incarceration; and public oversight of detention facilities. Her research has been profiled by New Yorker Magazine, cited by the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and National Public Radio, among others, and published by leading civil rights and policy law journals including the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and Stanford Law & Policy Review, and University of California-Irvine.

Professor Armstrong is a graduate of Yale Law School (JD), the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (MPA), and New York University (BA). She is certified by the U.S. Department of Justice as a Pr*son Rape Elimination Act auditor.


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Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs - Bass Lecture Hall, 2315 Red River St, Austin, United States

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