Prison Monitoring
METHODOLOGY
Each Project visit to a women’s correctional facility takes place over the course of two days. We spend the first day interviewing the Inmate Liaison Committee (a group of inmates elected by their peers to represent the concerns of the inmate population), medical and mental health staff, civilian employees, correction officers, the Superintendent, and other prison administrators. The second day consists solely of interviewing inmates, both in disciplinary confinement and the general population, with survey tools we have created that recognize women inmates’ specific needs and circumstances.