Published:
January 6, 2025
Deitch and Alycia Welch, the lab’s co-director recently set up a website providing information about the prison oversight bodies in each state. Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have independent entities that provide prison oversight and can be a source of information that incarceration agencies seek to obscure.
Other government entities, like an oversight body, might also have useful reports. More regulatory bodies for prisons and jails are emerging, according to Michele Deitch, who directs the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at The University of Texas at Austin.
“Those oversight bodies are a tremendous source of information,” she told Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF).