Imprisonment

So There's huge data equity problems when it comes to LLMs that we should be really careful about as insights professionals when we use them.

And you point to another one, right? Incarceration, which has links there to mental health as well.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And, you know, I think it's just a matter of, you know, being able to call those things out to see them and understand them.

And that curiosity eventually led me to the Prison Yoga Project.

I enrolled in their foundational training program, Yoga Through the Lens of Trauma and Incarceration.

I went into that training wanting to learn more about how yoga could be taught in a prison setting, but I came away with something much bigger than that.

I was introduced to a population whose lives are often shaped by circumstances many of us have never experienced firsthand.

that we had the time to do it and we had the ability to do it.

So that's what prompted me writing the latter part of Imprisonment, getting our story out.

Me and Brian and Peter Mahagan wrote Norma Ecclesiastica, My Time, which is about the memory of the hunger strike.

And then me and Brian making the feature film H3.

For some people, it's fatal.

And when someone dies in custody, the system that failed them is often the same system responsible for investigating that failure.

I'm Josh Spickler, Executive Director at Just City, and this is The Permanent Record, our podcast about the criminal legal system and how we can work together to make it better for everyone.

Our guest today is Andrea Armstrong, a law professor in New Orleans, whose research tracks deaths in custody across Louisiana and She works closely with the prison legal and advocacy community.

In the second of our three-part series for our Make Them Known project, I spoke with Andrea about what happens when the people we're trying to make known don't make it out and what accountability should actually look like when that happens.

So they were doing death penalty defense work.

And then I was also in law school when Katrina happened.

And so did and coordinated a lot of work that ultimately resulted in reforming the entire public defender system statewide.

Um,

Visit the Imprisoned, Ransom the Captive.

Visit the

Imprisoned.

Ransom the Captive is like, yeah, I mean, should we be paying bail for people, Charles? Is that a charity we should start? Well, I

think there was a trend of like where people would get kidnapped.

Of course.

So the report is the Youth Justice and Incarceration Inquiry Report, and it is on the Australian Parliament website.

Would you like me to provide the full website?

Please, if you can.

He was sentenced to it.

Incarceration is a dangerous place.

Law-abiding citizens get into fights while incarcerated, and I understand that the- the humor of that, you are not law-abiding if you are incarcerated, but if you're incarcerated, people who don't commit problems inside of jails or prisons do get into fights, people who do also.

So-