Criminal Law
Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how U.S. health law and policy fails to protect people in custody.
Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Author
Andrea Armstrong is the Law Visiting Committee Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law. Prof. Armstrong participated in a three-year study of effects of incarceration on health service use in Louisiana through an Interdisciplinary Research Leader grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, shared with the Voice of the Experienced and LSU Center for Healthcare Value and Equity.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how U.S. health law and policy fails to protect people in custody.
