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Rethinking incarceration
The Prison and Jail Innovation Lab (PJIL) is a policy resource center at the LBJ School of Public Affairs that serves as a catalyst to ensure the safe and humane treatment of people in custody and that cultivates the next generation of justice policy leaders.
Dec. 8, 2021
The Prison and Jail Innovation Lab (PJIL) has launched!
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin has established a new national policy resource center working to ensure the safe and humane treatment of people in custody and cultivate the next generation of justice policy leaders. The Prison and Jail Innovation Lab (PJIL) serves as a bridge between academic research, practical experience, and policy on pressing matters related to independent correctional oversight and conditions of confinement.
March 28, 2022
New post in PJIL's blog series, "Degree of Civilization"
"The New Panopticon: COVID in Prison, Technology, My Brother, and Me" is PJIL's newest blog in its "Degree of Civilization" series. The blog discusses the harms of surveillance technology used to monitor communication in prisons and jails.
PJIL in Action
