Deitch directs the LBJ School’s Prison and Jail Innovation Lab, a national policy resource center seeking to improve conditions of confinement and correctional oversight. She is an attorney with more than 35 years of experience working on criminal justice policy issues with state and local government officials, corrections leaders, justice system practitioners, and advocates. Most of Deitch's current research focuses on independent prison oversight, deaths in custody, and prison and jail management and conditions issues.