Publications

Attorneys within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the department) provided inaccurate legal advice to department executives regarding the ability to sustain disciplinary charges based on inmate testimony alone. In this Sentinel Case report, we describe the facts of the case, explain our position, and set forth our concerns should the department attorneys continue to advise hiring authorities that disciplinary charges cannot be sustained without corroborating testimony from noninmate witnesses.

This report addresses the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (the department) internal investigations and employee discipline cases that we monitored and closed between January 1, 2019, and June 30, 2019.

This report summarizes the OIG’s 10th report on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s progress implementing its report titled The Future of Corrections: A Blueprint to Save Billions of Dollars, End Federal Court Oversight, and Improve the Prison System (the Blueprint).

This report summarizes the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s review of use-of-force incidents the OIG monitored between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018. We found that the department’s review committees performed well in self-assessing compliance with policies governing staff use of force. However, we also found that the department’s review committees determined that staff fully complied with policy in only about 55 percent of the incidents we monitored…

Appendices to Discipline Monitoring Report (Semi-Annual Report), July – December 2018

This report summarizes the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s internal investigations and employee discipline cases the OIG monitored and closed between July 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018. We found that the Office of Internal Affairs timely processed the vast majority of referrals regarding alleged employee misconduct. However, we also found that the Office of Internal Affairs did not always complete criminal investigations prior to the deadline to file misdemeanor charges and routinely delayed opening several investigations, unnecessarily costing the department and taxpayers $45,600….

2018 OIG Annual Report