African American Incarceration and Prison Reform in New Orleans, Parish Prison Press Photograph Archive, 1973–1976
Archive of four press photographs produced between 1973 and 1976 documenting inmate life, prison reform efforts, and conditions within Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans, Louisiana, a carceral institution whose origins extended back to the antebellum era and the policing of enslaved African Americans. The material documents systems of incarceration.....
