 His Federal Prison Oversight Act aims to change that. The new law will pave the way for a Justice Department watchdog to conduct regular inspections of every federal prison. The inspector general will report his findings and prison officials will need to respond with corrective action. The law also creates a hotline for people in prison and their families to use to report wrongdoing. And it creates a new job for an ombudsman to investigate the health and safety of incarcerated people and staff.