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Accountability Audit: Review of Audits of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, 2000–2006 
(April 2008)- Bureau of Independent Review, Semi-Annual Report, July – December 2007 (March 2008)
- California Prison Health Care Receivership: Review of Disbursements April 2006–June 2007 (February 2008)
- Folsom State Prison Quadrennial and Warden Audit (January 2008)
- The California Institution for Women Quadrennial and Warden Audit(December 2007)
- Special Review into the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Release of Inmate Scott Thomas
(October 2007)
- Bureau of Independent Review, Semi-Annual Report, January - June 2007 (September 2007)
A Message From Inspector General David R. Shaw
Welcome to the home page of the Office of the Inspector General. Our mission is to help safeguard the integrity of the state's correctional system - in effect, to act as the eyes and ears of the public in overseeing the state's prisons and correctional programs. The Office of the Inspector General carries out that mission by rigorously investigating and auditing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to uncover criminal conduct, administrative wrongdoing, poor management practices, waste, fraud, and other abuses by staff, supervisors, and management. The OIG also conducts real-time monitoring of specified internal affairs investigations and disciplinary actions conducted by CDCR.
To bring public transparency into the operation of the state's correctional system, we post the findings of every audit and large-scale investigation on this website, along with quarterly summary reports describing the number of audits and special reviews completed, the types of misconduct uncovered, and the discipline meted out. This public posting is critical because prisons are, by their very nature, places where most events occur outside the public view. The public airing of the reports provides a powerful incentive to organizational remedy of the problems afflicting the state's correctional departments and institutions.
The public and our stakeholders are a vital partner in ensuring that California's correctional system operates in a sound and effective manner and that correctional administrators are held accountable for implementing necessary reforms. I hope you will find this website useful in the furtherance of those goals.
— David R. Shaw
Inspector General
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