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16 Apr 2024, 4:38 pm
Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, said that even though the facility was “unfixable,” separating women from their families can be problematic. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 10:42 am
Michele Deitch is right, they need their own oversight agency. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 8:10 am
Michele Deitch, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin, attributed the spate of 2021 suicides in Texas to pandemic stress: “For the rest of the world, the pandemic has been stressful,” she told the Marshall Project, “and I think people in custody have had that but on steroids. [read post]
20 May 2021, 10:47 am
12 Nov 2020, 12:42 pm
Michele Deitch, the lead researcher at the University of Texas, is critical about elderly inmates languishing in Texas’ dangerous jails. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 12:42 pm
Michele Deitch, the lead researcher at the University of Texas, is critical about elderly inmates languishing in Texas’ dangerous jails. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 6:32 am
I encouraged them to talk to people who deal with TCJS more regularly: in particular Michele Deitch of UT's LBJ School, who is an actual issue-area expert on correctional oversight, and Diana Claitor at the Texas Jail Project, whose group helps jail inmates file grievances. [read post]
13 Jul 2020, 1:30 pm
Broadly, they were eliminating Class C arrests, bail reform so she wouldn't be stuck in jail for lack of money, and new training and regulation at county jails related to mental health and suicide - largely recommendations from Michele Deitch about national best practices. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 11:28 am
Michele Deitch of UT's LBJ School had a good idea on how to mitigate the situation: Providing burner phones for in-cell use. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 4:29 pm
In the current environment, the juice simply isn't worth the squeeze.For additional recommendations, Michele Deitch of UT's LBJ School has created a list of best practices every jail should be following.In some ways, these debates could end up changing the entire paradigm surrounding decarceration debates. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 6:26 am
LBJ School lecturer Michele Deitch emailed to say the total is actually seven. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 3:46 pm
(Paging Michele Deitch!) [read post]
18 Sep 2016, 6:53 am
I appreciated Michele Deitch the other day offering an analysis of the Sandra Bland settlement from the perspective of regulating county jails. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 5:46 am
"Seventeen-year-olds are really at risk in adult facilities; it's not the right place for them," said Michele Deitch, an expert on Texas jail issues and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. [read post]
4 Jul 2016, 7:19 am
Use the comments as an open thread to celebrate freedom and liberty by remembering those without them.Otherwise, a few housekeeping odds and ends worth mentioning: Thanks to Michele Deitch for posting a couple of documents last week that her students produced after a symposium in Houston on "Police, Jails and Vulnerable People. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 12:06 pm
Michele Deitch (yours truly) and Dr. [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 8:42 am
Under my (Michele Deitch's) supervision, graduate students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs wrote a series of policy briefs in response to issues raised at the University of Houston's Symposium on Police, Jails, and Vulnerable People held this past January and announced previously on this blog. [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 1:32 pm
The Texas House Corrections Committee will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss an array of interim charges, so lets preview each of them ahead of time. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 11:29 am
First, in the New York Times, Grits contributing writer Michele Deitch coauthored a column with Michael Mushlin from Pace Law School titled, "What's going on in our prisons? [read post]
20 Dec 2015, 5:00 pm
For a preview of some of the most pressing issues, a group of academics, including yours truly and another Grits writer, Michele Deitch, have organized a major symposium called, "Police, Jails, and Vulnerable People: New Strategies for Confronting Today's Challenges. [read post]
