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An Audit Report on Inspections and Enforcement at the Commission on Jail Standards

June 2019

Summary Analysis

The Commission on Jail Standards (Commission) had processes and related controls to ensure that it conducted inspections and enforced standards in compliance with applicable requirements to help ensure that local jails were safe, secure, and suitable. However, the Commission should strengthen its data management processes for user access and its review of data entered into its databases.

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The Commission on Jail Standards (Commission) had processes and related controls for conducting inspections and enforcing standards in compliance with applicable requirements to help ensure that local jails were safe, secure, and suitable. Specifically, the Commission: (1) ensured that all local jails were inspected annually; (2) reviewed complaints and serious incidents to verify compliance with applicable requirements; and (3) performed risk assessments to monitor risk at local jails. However, the Commission should strengthen its risk assessment process to ensure that it includes all required information.

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While the Commission entered inspection, serious incident, and complaint information in its data management systems, it did not follow its user access policy to ensure that access to those systems was appropriate (see text box for information on the Commission’s data management systems). In addition, the Commission did not have a data review process to verify the accuracy of that information. As a result, there were some discrepancies between the data entered and the information in the hard copy documentation.

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