This report summarizes the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s performance in conducting internal investigations and handling employee discipline cases we monitored and closed from July 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024. Of the 212 cases we monitored and closed in this time period, we rated 44 cases sufficient, 92 sufficient with recommendations, and 76 cases insufficient.
This report summarizes the OIG’s monitoring of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s staff misconduct investigations and the employee disciplinary processes that arise primarily from grievances incarcerated people file at their assigned institutions. The OIG monitored the performance of the department’s Office of Internal Affairs investigators in conducting investigations; the performance of hiring authorities, including wardens, in handling the employee discipline process for those cases; and the performance of department attorneys who provided legal advice to the investigators and hiring authorities and represented the department in legal proceedings, if any, regarding these cases. In 2024, the OIG monitored and closed 162 staff misconduct cases.
This report summarizes our monitoring of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Centralized Screening Team, which determines how to classify and route complaints the department receives that contain routine issues or allegations of staff misconduct toward an incarcerated or supervised person. From January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024, the OIG reviewed and monitored 9,245 complaints to determine whether the Centralized Screening Team identified and routed allegations of staff misconduct to the appropriate entity within the department, either for a full investigation by the Office of Internal Affairs; for investigation by locally designated investigators at the prison or parole office where the misconduct allegedly occurred; or to be handled as a routine matter by prison or parole office staff.
This annual report summarizes the work the Office of the Inspector General completed during 2024, including the 20 public reports we issued. The report also details the work the OIG performed that was not highlighted in other reports issued during the year.
This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at Avenal State Prison between April and September 2023. We rated the case review component of the overall health care quality adequate and the compliance component of the overall health care quality inadequate.
This report examines the inquiries completed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Allegation Inquiry Management Section (AIMS) from January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2021. According to the department’s data, during 2021, AIMS received 3,434 staff complaint inquiries referred by wardens and completed 1,445 inquiries. OIG inspectors monitored 28 inquiry cases. We assessed the overall inquiry processes performed by the department as poor in 17 cases, or 60 percent. For the remaining 11 cases, or 39 percent, we determined the department performed satisfactory work in completing the cases.
The Office of the Inspector General safeguards the integrity of the State’s correctional system by providing oversight and transparency regarding the policies and practices of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. We carry out this mission through diligent monitoring, honest assessment, and dedication to improving the correctional system of our State.
We promise to do our best to assist in safeguarding the integrity of the State’s correctional system. If you have witnessed or know of any misconduct within the operations of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, please report the information to us, below.
Beginning January 1, 2025, Penal Code section 6130 requires the Office of the Inspector General to publish the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (department) Centralized List of Disapproved Publications on the OIG’s website. The list, which is updated on a monthly basis, is also available on the department’s website. Existing law grants incarcerated people the right to purchase, receive, and read publications (newspapers, periodicals, and books), subject to restrictions reasonably related to legitimate penological interests. The department’s disapproved publications list includes the publications that the department has prohibited because they violate department regulations. Penal Code section 6130 permits the OIG to review publications on the list to determine if the office concurs with the department’s determination that the publication is in violation of department regulations.
The OIG evaluates the qualifications of every candidate whom the Governor nominates for appointment as a warden at an adult correctional institution or as a superintendent at a juvenile facility and the Inspector General reports the recommendation regarding each candidate’s qualifications in confidence to the Governor.
It is the policy of the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to provide service in the language of our customers.
If you feel that we have not provided you with adequate interpretation services or have denied you an available translated document, please complete and submit the OIG’s Language Access Complaint Process and Complaint Form, available in English and Spanish.
