Publications

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at Salinas Valley State Prison from June 2025 through December 7, 2025. We rated the case review component of the overall health care quality adequate and the compliance component of the overall health care quality adequate.

This report examines and analyzes trends in the healthcare provided across all California prisons during OIG’s seventh cycle of medical inspections, which took place between November 2022 and August 2025, with publication of the cycle’s final report in April 2026. The report also compares the inspection results of the same institutions across the three prior cycles – Cycles 4, 5, and 6.

This Special Review examines CDCR’s implementation of regulations governing placement of incarcerated people in restricted housing units within its prisons. We reviewed both historical California regulations on segregated housing confinement and regulations that became effective on November 1, 2023, that were intended to reform segregated housing confinement and implement restricted housing units. We assessed the department’s compliance with regulations and policies governing the placement and retention of incarcerated people in restricted housing, the living conditions within those units, and the effects of regulations and policies concerning violence against staff and the incarcerated population.

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, 2025, through December 31, 2025. This report combines two reports we have historically issued as separate reports and covers all staff misconduct investigations we monitored regardless of the manner in which the allegations were reported – allegations the department’s hiring authorities referred for investigation and allegations incarcerated people raised via the grievance and appeal process. Of the 226 administrative disciplinary and criminal cases we monitored and closed, we rated the department’s overall performance adequate in 110 cases, improvement needed in 48 cases, and inadequate in 68 cases. Of the 141 staff misconduct complaint cases we monitored and closed, we rated the department’s overall performance adequate in 44 cases, improvement needed in 41 cases, and inadequate in 56 cases.

This report describes the OIG’s monitoring of the department’s revised staff misconduct routine review process, which replaced the local inquiry process, in 2025. From April 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025, the OIG monitored and closed 114 routine reviews. The OIG assigned one of three overall ratings for each case, rating the department’s overall performance adequate in 39 cases, or 34 percent; improvement needed in 24 cases, or 21 percent; and inadequate in 51 cases, or 45 percent.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at the California Health Care Facility between July and December 2024. We rated the case review component of the overall health care quality inadequate and the compliance component of the overall health care quality inadequate.

This annual report summarizes the work the Office of the Inspector General completed during 2025, including the 28 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 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 allegations of staff misconduct toward an incarcerated or supervised person. The OIG reviewed 15,998 of the 215,322 complaints screened by the department in 2025 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 or for routine review by supervisory staff at the prison or parole office where the misconduct allegedly occurred.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center between April and September 2024. We rated the case review component of the overall health care quality inadequate and the compliance component of the overall health care quality inadequate.