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To safeguard the integrity of the State’s correctional system, we work to provide oversight and transparency concerning the policies and practices of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. We achieve this by monitoring the department’s activities, reporting on them, and making recommendations to the department.
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We summarize our monitoring activities as they concern the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and its operations. Our reports highlight significant issues occurring within the State's prison system, as well as our recommendations to the department.
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We Provide Transparency
To safeguard the integrity of the State’s correctional system, we work to provide oversight and transparency concerning the policies and practices of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. We achieve this by monitoring the department’s activities, reporting on them, and making recommendations to the department.
SEE OUR SERVICES
See Our Careers
We emphasize integrity and transparency. Join us as we continue to implement these values in California's correctional system. See our career opportunities below.
See Careers
Report Improper Government Activity
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.
report misconduct
Our Latest Reports
We summarize our monitoring activities as they concern the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and its operations. Our reports highlight significant issues occurring within the State's prison system, as well as our recommendations to the department.
See Reports
We Provide Transparency
To safeguard the integrity of the State’s correctional system, we work to provide oversight and transparency concerning the policies and practices of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. We achieve this by monitoring the department’s activities, reporting on them, and making recommendations to the department.
SEE OUR SERVICES
See Our Careers
We emphasize integrity and transparency. Join us as we continue to implement these values in California's correctional system. See our career opportunities below.
See Careers
Report Improper Government Activity
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.
report misconduct
Our Latest Reports
We summarize our monitoring activities as they concern the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and its operations. Our reports highlight significant issues occurring within the State's prison system, as well as our recommendations to the department.
See Reports
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LATEST REPORTS

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Discipline Monitoring Report, July – December 2024

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.

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2024 Staff Misconduct Investigation Monitoring Report

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.

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2024 Centralized Screening Monitoring Report

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.

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2024 Annual Report

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.

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Avenal State Prison Cycle 7 Medical Inspection Report

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.

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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.

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 January 1, 2022, through June 30, 2022. We concluded that the department’s overall performance…
This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated persons at the Correctional Training Facility between February 2021 and July 2021. We rated the overall quality of health care provided at the Correctional Training Facility during this time period as inadequate.
This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated persons at Calipatria State Prison between April 2021 and September 2021. We rated the overall quality of health care provided at Calipatria State Prison during this time period as adequate.
This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated persons at High Desert State Prison between December 2020 and May 2021. We rated the overall quality of health care provided at High Desert State Prison during this time period as inadequate.

Providing Transparency

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. 

Our Promise

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.

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