Welcome to IncarcerationTransparency.org, we hope you enjoy this website. Our website reflects the enormous work of law students at Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law and the University of South Carolina School of Law. The data is gathered by upper-level law students through an annual seminar on Incarceration Law & Policy, taught by Professor Armstrong and Professor Wasilczuk. This website is a project of the Technology and Legal Innovation Clinic at Loyola Law School, New Orleans, supervised by clinical Professor Judson Mitchell.

Professor Andrea Armstrong joined the Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law faculty in 2010. She is a leading national expert on prison and jail conditions and is certified by the U.S. Department of Justice as a Prison Rape Elimination Act auditor.  Her research focuses on the constitutional dimensions of prisons and jails, specifically prison labor practices, the intersection of race and conditions of incarceration, and public oversight of detention facilities. She teaches in the related fields of constitutional law, criminal procedure, law and poverty, and race and the law.

Professor Judson Mitchell is the clinical professor at the Technology and Legal Innovation Clinic at Loyola Law School. Professor Mitchell supervised and directed the creation of this website. He is also responsible for the database creation, management,  and internal coding of this website.  Professor Mitchell is also the clinical professor of the Misdemeanor Clinic at Loyola Law School New Orleans.

Professor Madalyn Wasilczuk joined the University of South Carolina School of Law faculty in 2021. Her scholarship focuses on criminal legal system issues including the law of policing and prisons, the death penalty and other extreme sentences, and children’s rights in the legal system. She directs the Juvenile Justice Clinic and teaches courses that cover the death penalty, sentencing practices, youth justice, criminal procedure, and race and the law. Before joining academia, Professor Wasilczuk represented children and adults at all stages of proceedings as an Assistant Defender at The Defender Association of Philadelphia. She has also served as a fellow with the International Legal Foundation in Myanmar and Tunisia. Professor Wasilczuk is a graduate of New York University School of Law and American University.

Robert J. Harrison, LCSW is a male clinical social worker with over 12 years of experience. He is licensed to practice by the state board in Louisiana He has provided individual and grouptherapy to assess, diagnose, treat, and prevent mental illness, as well as emotional and behavioral disturbances. LCSWs have additional hours of training that qualify them to work in clinical settings. Though the role of social workers and clinical social workers differs, their goal is the same: to act as an advocate for and improve the lives of their clients.

This project is supported by the Dr. Norman C. Francis Distinguished Professorship fund and Arnold Ventures.

All parish budgets were provided by the ACLU of Louisiana.