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This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at Salinas Valley State Prison between January and June 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.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran between February and July 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.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility between December 2022 and May 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.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at North Kern State Prison between November 2022 and April 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.

In this audit, we reviewed the department’s classification process to screen incarcerated people for escape risk and observed physical security layouts and protocols for incarcerated people counts. We reviewed documentation on select escapes that occurred between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023, from minimum-support facilities and conservation camps—the only locations with reported escapes during the audit period. We also assessed both the security recommendations made by managers at affected facilities and the corrective action taken to address the escapes.

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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, 2024, through June 30, 2024. Of the 197 cases we monitored and closed in this time period, we rated 31 cases sufficient, 101 sufficient with recommendations, and 65 cases insufficient.

This Sentinel Case involves a male correctional administrator who allegedly made multiple derogatory and obscene comments to subordinate female staff and engaged in behaviors that violated the department’s Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and sexual harassment policies. The administrator also attempted to solicit information that concerned EEO complaints filed against him and intimidated a manager whom he supervised after the manager’s colleague had reported the administrator’s alleged misconduct. The hiring authority dismissed the administrator. However, without sufficient justification, the department subsequently entered into a settlement agreement with the administrator demoting him to a correctional officer position and suspending him for 11 months.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at California Rehabilitation Center between August 2022 and January 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.

This report summarizes the work we performed in 2023 reviewing 730 use-of-force incidents that occurred at California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (department) facilities. In this report, we present 14 monitored incidents in which we identified significant concerns stemming from issues that occurred prior to, during, and after the use-of-force incidents. We issued five recommendations to address concerns we identified while assessing the incidents and the various phases of the use-of-force review process.