TPI is submitting comment reports about deficient PREA audits of Texas prisons. We note that even though funding has been maliciously cut for all PREA support activities by the current administration, TPI will continue to post PREA audit comments as long as they are released, and we will continue to bring to light abuses that sometimes are and always should be covered by PREA.
TPI has developed a simple auditor tool for auditors to see current information about any unit that we have in our system, providing important PREA-related information concerning these facilities.
Content warning: Some of these letters describe threats and incidents of violence that may be disturbing. We will note whether each letter is considered a low, moderate, or high risk for being disturbing. We consider this letter to be low risk.
The following letter report is TPI’s report of deficiencies we were able to identify with the 2024 audit of the TDCJ Lynaugh-Fort Stockton Complex. The audit report can be accessed at this link.
Audit deficiencies discussed in our comment letter include the reporting of questionable information, reporting of false information, use of problematic problematic language, and apparent failures to comply with minimum audit requirements. In addition, this comment letter documents questionable information in the discussion of at least 11 standards, false information for at least five standards, that one standard was assessed as exceeding compliance with absolutely no justification, and vague or inappropriate discussion of at least eight standards. Based on these deficiencies, it appears that compliance is questionable for at least eight standards, there is an indication of compliance is not met for three standards, and the report documents a failure to comply with two standards with no corrective action required.