Deportations to detention in other countries bring home the question of the durability of government commitments to the equal status of all people, citizen and non-citizen, in detention and not. This panel will explore that issue in the context of practices in prisons that document the obligations that are owed to people held in custody, the current modes of in-prison "discipline," and the law that bounds (and does not) the conditions of confinement. The panel will be led by Professor Armstrong, Loyola New Orleans, recipient of the McArthur Genius Award and founder of the Transparency Project, documenting the lives of people who have died while in detention in Louisiana.