Josh McClain graduated in 2025 with a joint degree from Texas Law and a master's degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Prior to graduate school, Josh worked with Legal Aid of North Carolina, a civil legal services provider, focusing mainly on long-term disaster relief. Over the course of graduate school, Josh has worked with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid and the Southern Environmental Law Center, in addition to holding a number of research-assistant and teaching-assistant positions at Texas Law. For PJIL, Josh provided research and produced written materials to support some of the lab's portfolio of projects, including the National Resource Center for Correctional Oversight and the Louisiana Jail Standards Project. Josh is currently focused primarily on research into environmental conditions in Texas prisons and continues to contribute to the NRCCO project.