PREA Auditor General Information

Under PREA Standard 115.401(o), “Auditors shall attempt to communicate with community-based or victim advocates who may have insight into relevant conditions in the facility.” Since 2013, TPI has been contacted by less than five auditors, representing a gross failure of PREA auditors to comply with this standard.

TPI does not have data concerning all prisons and prison systems, but we do have significant data for a number of units in the Texas prison system.

Because the National PREA Resource Center provides oversight and quality control, this also constitutes a gross failure by NPRC to comply with their own requirement that “auditors must demonstrate that they attempted to communicate with a community-based or victim advocate to gather information about relevant conditions in the facility.”

TPI will be increasing our monitoring of PREA reports and filing complaints both with and against the NPRC for each unit audited where TPI has "insight into relevant conditions in the facility" yet we were not contacted.