In May 2013 Mother Jones magazine ranked Polunsky as one of the ten worst prisons in the US, based on Congressional testimony from former inmate Anthony Charles Graves (TDCJ Death Row#999127,"Anthony Charles Graves." () Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on March 16, 2014. released due to overturning of conviction on September 7, 2006"Offenders No Longer on Death Row" ( ) Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on March 16, 2014.) and research conducted by the magazine during a three-year period.Moravec, Eva Ruth. "Texas prison named second-worst in U.S." San Antonio Express-News. Thursday May 2, 2013. Retrieved on August 11, 2013.
