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| http://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/news-coverage/mother-jones-exclusive-read-elizabeth-warrens-scathing-report-on-corrupt-prison-audits | Mother Jones: Exclusive: Read Elizabeth Warren’s Scathing Report on “Corrupt” Prison Audits | 2020-12-14 | 2020 | 2020-12 | Democrat | House | MA | Elizabeth Warren | W000817 | www.warren.senate.gov | legacy | December 14, 2020 Mother Jones: Exclusive: Read Elizabeth Warren's Scathing Report on Corrupt Prison Audits The result has been the rubber-stamping of dangerous facilities and the waste of millions of taxpayer dollars. The organization responsible for accrediting US prisons, jails, and detention centers runs a corrupt process that puts a rubber stamp on dangerous facilities while taking in millions from the private prison industry, according to a scathing report from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), shared exclusively with Mother Jones. The report, the result of a nearly 19-month investigation by the senator's office, examined the American Correctional Association (ACA), a nongovernmental organization that acts simultaneously as a professional association and an oversight body for prison and detention systems. Federal, state, and local governments pay the ACA to audit the facilities where they keep people incarcerated and issue its stamp of approval on their operations. Qualifying facilities must meet the standards ACA spells out in its published manuals, covering everything from fire code compliance to officer gun training. Private prisons and detention centers, meanwhile, are often required to get accredited by the ACA to access lucrative government contracts, according to Warren's reportand when scrutinized, they point to their accreditation status as a defense. After all, the ACA's website says, accreditation is awarded to the best of the best. Read the full articlehere. By: Madison Pauly Source: Mother Jones Print Email Tweet Next Article Previous Article | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |