Publications

This report describes the OIG’s monitoring of the department’s staff misconduct local inquiry process in 2024. From January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024, the OIG monitored and closed 415 local inquiries. The OIG assigned one of three overall ratings for each case: superior, satisfactory, or poor. The department’s overall performance was poor in 270 of 415 cases, or 65 percent, and satisfactory in 145 cases, or 35 percent.

During March 2025, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team randomly selected 978 grievances for monitoring. This document presents six notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during March 2025.

In this audit, we reviewed the department’s All-Hazards Emergency Operations Plan, as well as the 2024 site-specific emergency operations plans for 30 of the department’s prisons, assessing the department’s ability to evacuate prisons threatened by wildfires, floods, and earthquakes. We also completed an in-depth review of the preparedness of three prisons located in different parts of the state, reviewing their methods for assessing their individual risks for wildfires, floods, and earthquakes, their documented mitigation plans, and whether they revised and improved their policies in response to threats posed by natural disasters.

During February 2025, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team randomly selected 1,082 grievances for monitoring. This document presents seven notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during February 2025.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at Central California Women’s Facility between May and October 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.

The Office of the Inspector General (the OIG), as part of our statute, maintains an Intake Processing Unit that receives complaints from the incarcerated population and the public. Staff in the Intake Processing Unit respond to complaints that the OIG receives through U.S. Postal mail, phone calls (toll-free hotline), and inquiries through our website, which can exceed 1,000 monthly claims. Below are 16 complaints that the Intake Processing Unit reviewed and closed as of February 2025. These cases highlight the OIG’s impact and efforts to resolve the complainant’s concerns.

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.

During January 2025, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team monitored and closed 875 grievances. This document presents eight notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during January 2025.

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.