TPI is submitting comment reports about deficient PREA audits of Texas prisons.
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 TDCJ Murray Unit. The audit report has not been posted on TDCJ’s web site yet (reports MUST be published on the agency web site per PREA regulations), but can be accessed at the PREA Resource Center audit directory.
TPI’s review of the audit provides the following conclusions:
- Audit report overall includes questionable information, reporting of false information, use of problematic problematic language, and apparent failures to comply with minimum audit requirements.
- Questionable information provided for at least five standards.
- False information for at least two standards.
- Two standards assessed as exceeding compliance with inadequate justification.
- Compliance is questionable for at least eight standards.
- Indication of compliance not met for five standards.
- Report documents a failure to comply with two standards with no corrective action required.