The hidden human costs of incarceration

Law professor Andrea Armstrong documented the loss of life inside jails and prisons in Louisiana, the state with the highest in-custody mortality rate. In 2018, film director Roger Ross Williams talked to the John Adams about his documentary American Jail.



This article for the New Yorker talks about the hidden human costs of incarceration, documented by law professor Andrea Armstrong. She researched the loss of life inside jails and prisons in Louisiana, the state with the highest in-custody mortality rate. In 2018, film director Roger Ross Williams talked to the John Adams about his documentary American Jail.


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