Publications

During the March 2024 review period, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team retrospectively reviewed 12 random local inquiry cases that were closed by the department from October 2023 through February 2024 in order to assess the department’s performance on local inquiry cases that our office did not contemporaneously monitor.

This report summarizes our monitoring of the inquiries and investigations the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation performed from January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023 into allegations of staff misconduct incarcerated persons raised through the department’s grievance and appeal processes. The report summarizes our monitoring of the department’s Centralized Screening Process, the investigations performed by the Office of Internal Affairs’ Allegation Inquiry Unit, and the investigations performed by locally designated investigators who work at the prisons where the grievances originated. See our Fact Sheet for more insights.

During the February 2024 review period, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team retrospectively reviewed 16 random local inquiry cases that were closed by the department from August 2023 through February 2024 in order to assess the department’s performance on local inquiry cases that our office did not contemporaneously monitor.

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, 2023, through December 31, 2023. Of the 197 cases we monitored and closed in this time period, we rated 49 cases sufficient, 89 sufficient with recommendations, and 59 cases insufficient.

This annual report summarizes the work the Office of the Inspector General completed during 2023, including the 16 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 evaluates the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s progress meeting the components of its 2012 Blueprint plan that it had not previously met, focusing on a review of standardized staffing of rehabilitative programs. This 13th report presents data collected between November and December 2023, with the exception of departmental population figures, which extend through June 30, 2023.

During the January 2024 review period, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team retrospectively reviewed two random local inquiry cases that were closed by the department in June 2023 and September 2023, respectively, in order to assess the department’s performance on local inquiry cases that our office did not contemporaneously monitor.

During the December 2023 review period, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team retrospectively reviewed 18 random local inquiry cases that were closed by the department from June through September 2023, in order to assess the department’s performance on local inquiry cases that our office did not contemporaneously monitor.

In this special review, we shed light on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s decision to address a backlog of incarcerated persons’ allegations of staff misconduct by converting them into routine grievances and sending them to local prison staff for handling instead of performing an investigation or inquiry. The decision violated both the department’s regulations and its policy for screening and investigating grievances received from incarcerated people who alleged staff misconduct. Our review found that the department’s decision to redirect these grievances to its prisons circumvented control measures that were put in place to prevent prison authorities from making potentially biased decisions when responding to allegations of staff misconduct.