In the state of Louisiana, 786 inmates—none of whom were ever sentenced to death—died behind bars between 2015-2019 while serving out their prison sentences. Since Black people are already incarcerated at disproportionate rates, these deaths have been disproportionately among Black inmates. This information has not been publicly available until now, because no single authority in Louisiana is required to collect such data. When law professor Andrea Armstrong and her students took it upon themselves to conduct this research, they were shocked by what they found. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with Armstrong about investigating the quiet horror happening inside Louisiana prisons and what can be done to stop it. Professor Armstrong joined the Loyola University New Orleans,College of Law faculty in 2010 and founded IncarcerationTransparency.org, a database that provides facility-level deaths behind bars data and analysis for Louisiana and memorializes the lives lost. She is a leading national expert on prison and jail conditions and is certified by the US Department of Justice as a Prison Rape Elimination Act auditor.
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Only 50% went in with an illness, this shows theres some serious LYING being done by the Medical Examiner on the C.O.D of those who passed away.
Erin Brockovich
Remember that Sandra Bullock movie about that lady she was a lawyer she was hit anybody special but she knew how to stand up for people and she was intimidated by anybody I think she would be a good fit for your case you know who I'm talkin about
Wow. Her positions are very persuasive! I am impressed. Some of the questions were vague but she found legal reasoning to explain to him in laymen terms. But on a bigger note, I really wonder if I think and/or feel severe criminals should be given all of these rights and/or privileges when they didn't have any mercy on their victims.
Good interview!
They harvesting those organs
My son died a year ago at the age of 31 in protective custody in prison. At first they told me it was a heart attack but a few weeks later they informed me it was suicide. I haven't been able to find one attorney that will stand up to them.
You do the crime you do the time quite trying to making it a race thing
We do not have people picking cotton in La for 10 cents an hour.
She lied about this.
Angola has a history of ordering twice as much medicine and drugs as needed. This excess was sold to foreign countries by the warden Cain.
He stole most of the prime livestock.
Are Louisiana inmates required to be vaccinated.
These numbers are absolutely insane only a 5 year study 780 deaths
If you don't have money in jails and prisons on your books you don't get help, the inmates have to pay for care. How does that make sense!?! You cant even get Tylenol or Ibuprofen without paying first
I know someone in prison that is suffering from Severe High blood pressure and the Dr there will not help him. He is afraid hes going to have a heart attack and they will say he died of natural causes. I pray he doesn't die😥
I don't understand how if a person of a different ethnic group dies in this scenario its "disproportionately affecting" them, but if they are male its not disproportional, its seemingly ignored. It seems like people have just accepted that men can go to jail at a hugely disproportional rate and that they obviously are more likely to offend as compared to women.
Who created your prisons? Who runs your prisons? You the answer. So why do you people constantly go to the polls and vote for these people to rule over you? Why? Why? are you constantly turning your back on GOD and voting for Satan wicked system to rule over you. Every time you go vote for your oppressors and enemies to rule over you, you are voting for destruction to you and your own people. You people have been hoodwinked, deceived and lied to by your pastors, leaders and those you choose to vote for whom you put more trust in them than you do your GOD. Once again every time you vote for your enemies and oppressors this will continue to happen. How you expect to have life when you're voting to be killed?
So sade louisania was always poor because the rich plantation killed so many people the prison continued to kill black people Moore prison kill the job but not for the white oligarchie so sade, now Biden is the same politic weaker.. thanks
Churches used to care about this and visit prisons, etc. It's become a much bigger system than most people see with rehab programs, etc. that are filthy with televangelist or national prayer breakfast energy. Some of it is good for people but we all see the parts that fail society. I imagine the Evangelicals for Bernie is carrying the older, more Gentile, torch.
I know they got Ganges in prison that hurt kill each other. Called kangaroos court. They beat the shit out you. If u lucky they won't pick u . 90 percent get beat. Down . It's not like outside.
Prisons have never had good medical care and being locked in a cell with another person 20 or more hours a day certainly doesn't allow you to social distance.