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This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated persons at Sierra Conservation Center between August 2021 and January 2022. We rated the overall quality of health care provided at Sierra Conservation Center during this time period as adequate.

This annual report summarizes the work the Office of the Inspector General completed during 2022, including the 18 public reports we issued. The report also details the work the OIG performs that was not highlighted in other reports issued during the year.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated persons at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison between July 2021 and December 2021. We rated the overall quality of health care provided at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison during this time period as adequate.

In this audit, we set out to determine whether the department’s drug interdiction processes provide effective means of preventing drugs from entering prison grounds, detecting and discovering drugs within prisons, and investigating the sources of discovered drugs. We also evaluated the department’s process for collecting and reporting data related to drug discoveries and performed transactional testing to assess reliability of the data. Finally, we reviewed the data to assess the impact of operational restrictions implemented in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on the introduction of drugs in prisons. In the report, we provide the department with 19 recommendations to improve its drug interdiction processes.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated persons at Mule Creek State Prison between June 2021 and November 2021. We rated the overall quality of health care provided at Mule Creek State Prison during this time period as adequate.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated persons at Pleasant Valley State Prison between May 2021 and October 2021. We rated the overall quality of health care provided at Pleasant Valley State Prison during this time period as adequate.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated persons at California State Prison, Sacramento between May 2021 and October 2021. We rated the overall quality of health care provided at California State Prison, Sacramento during this time period as inadequate.

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 in conducting internal investigations and handling employee discipline cases was poor. Of the 147 cases we monitored and closed, we rated 1 case superior, 99 cases satisfactory, and 77 cases poor.