
Prison and Jail Innovation Lab
@pjinnovationlab
We are a policy resource center at @TheLBJSchool working to transform the way we treat people in prisons and jails and to improve correctional oversight.
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Created by Prison and Jail Innovation Lab, the new National Resource Center for Correctional Oversight (NRCCO) provides research insights, #data, maps, profiles of oversight bodies, news updates, legislative developments and more. Access this comprehensive resource: prisonoversight.org


This is Incredible! Check out the new Prison and Jail Innovation Lab (PJIL) website - a first-of-its-kind resource for the best information and research on prison and jail oversight. prisonoversight.org This is a game changer! Thank you, Michele Deitch & Prison and Jail Innovation Lab, for

Learn more about the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab's new groundbreaking online clearinghouse - the National Resource Center for Correctional Oversight⬇️

JR DeShazo Alycia Welch Prison and Jail Innovation Lab Thank you, JR DeShazo--we are so grateful for The LBJ School's support of our work! UT Austin #WhatStartsHereChangesTheWorld

There is a humanitarian crisis in our nation’s prisons & jails. These institutions lack transparency & accountability. That’s why Michele Deitch, Alycia Welch Prison and Jail Innovation Lab new resource helping government create proper oversight is more important than ever. prisonoversight.org

To cap off 2023, Prison and Jail Innovation Lab is honoring journalism that cast a light on dangerous local jail conditions & showed how meaningful oversight is essential for the safe & humane operation of our nation's jails.🧵 For info on correctional oversight, see prisonoversight.org


On International Women’s Day, Prison and Jail Innovation Lab visited WA Corr Center for Women—a facility we featured in The Pandemic Gender Gap—& were delighted to see the positive initiatives are still in place, including a mom and babies program! Thanks Washington Corrections Ombuds for letting us join you. See👇


Prison and Jail Innovation Lab is honored to participate in UT Austin’s annual day-of-giving, #40forForty, which starts now & ends Thurs, 4/11 at 10 pm CT. If you value the work #PJIL does to improve #prisonoversight, please consider contributing at this link. Thanks! 40for40.utexas.edu/giving-day/777…

Please support Prison and Jail Innovation Lab during UT Austin’s #40forForty! With your help, we can continue to help ensure the safe and humane treatment of people in prisons and jails. Click the link below.👇 Every gift really does matter and we’re so grateful! 40for40.utexas.edu/giving-day/777…


Thank you to everyone who supported Prison and Jail Innovation Lab during #UT40for40! Your gift helps us increase our impact as we work to ensure the safe and humane treatment of people in prisons & jails, transform the landscape of #prisonoversight, & cultivate future justice policy leaders!

Please join us for a screening of The Box (2023 short) and panel discussion on solitary confinement. With Jeremy Young from Fault Lines, Molly Petchenik from Texas Civil Rights Project, Chanel Jones from Lioness Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance, & Robert Lilly from Grassroots Leadership. RSVP: bit.ly/3TFIZgg


As the UK looks to TX for solutions to its prison woes, I worry that the TX reforms are not being portrayed accurately & that the picture being presented of TX is overly rosy. 🧵 /1 Prison and Jail Innovation Lab The LBJ School thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

This past weekend the LBJ School’s Prison and Jail Innovation Lab hosted the Deaths in Custody Conference, bringing together experts from across the US to address this urgent issue. We were honored to have Andrea Armstrong, MacArthur Genius Award winner, deliver a thought-provoking keynote. A


If you missed Prison and Jail Innovation Lab's "Deaths in Custody" conference last week, you can watch the recordings of this remarkable event here: pjil.lbj.utexas.edu/recordings