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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.

New Blog Post

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"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.

Recent Events

  • TO ADD: Colombia justice lab
  • TO ADD: Uruguay 

  • TO ADD: Michele speaking at prisoners rights conference (link to event page for more)

  • Spoke on the Capital Punishment Center’s panel on “Death Row Incarceration in Historical and Comparative Perspective”. 

 

PJIL in Action

Quote from Gene Wu.