Justice Brings Back Its Prison-Rape Compliance Feedback Form
Published Date: 11/9/2026
Notice
Summary
The Department of Justice is bringing back a form that helps check if jails and prisons are following rules to stop prison rape. This affects federal, state, and tribal facilities, which will submit info for audits. You’ve got until January 8, 2027, to share your thoughts, and the process aims to be easier with electronic submissions—saving time and effort!
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Helps agencies demonstrate PREA compliance and certification
Information collected through the PREA OAS is used by DOJ-certified PREA auditors to assess compliance, generate standardized audit reports, document corrective actions, and assist states, territories, and the District of Columbia in meeting statutory certification requirements associated with PREA implementation.
Facilities must submit PREA audit information
Federal, State, and Tribal confinement facilities are expected to submit information through the PREA Online Audit System once every three years. The DOJ estimates 13,000 respondents (one PREA Coordinator per facility), about 8 hours per respondent, and a total estimated annual time burden of 104,000 hours.
Electronic submissions allowed to reduce burden
The collection explicitly permits electronic, automated, or other technological submission methods (e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses) to minimize respondent burden and speed the process.
Responding to the collection is voluntary
The notice states the obligation to respond is voluntary for the affected public (federal, state, and tribal).
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