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During June 2024, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team closed 49 monitored inquiries. Of. those 49 inquiries, the OIG monitored 12 inquiries contemporaneously and monitored 37 inquiries retrospectively. The summaries that follow present 10 notable inquiries the OIG monitored and closed during June 2024.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at California Medical Facility between October 2022 and March 2023. We rated the case review component of the overall health care quality inadequate and the compliance component of the overall health care quality inadequate.

In this audit we examined the accuracy and consistency of prison release date calculations for incarcerated people receiving determinate sentences and evaluated the department’s processes and procedures related to those calculations. We assessed the department’s process to ensure the accuracy of sentencing term release dates and to determine if the department properly applied time credits earned, forfeited, and restored in the calculation of sentencing term release dates in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at California State Prison, Corcoran between September 2022 and February 2023. We rated the case review component of the overall health care quality inadequate and the compliance component of the overall health care quality inadequate.

As part of the Office of the Inspector General’s statutory authority, we monitor the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s performance and compliance with the use of force at its 33 prisons, parole operations, and Office of Correctional Safety. This document presents three notable use-of-force incidents that the Field Investigations Monitoring Unit closed during May 2024.

During May 2024, the OIG’s Staff Misconduct Monitoring Unit’s Local Inquiry Team closed 32 monitored inquiries. Of those 32 inquiries, the OIG monitored 10 inquiries contemporaneously and monitored 22 inquiries retrospectively. The summaries that follow present 10 notable inquiries the OIG monitored and closed during May 2024.

The Office of the Inspector General’s (the OIG) Intake Processing Unit receives complaints from the incarcerated population and the public. To assist with the review of complaints, Intake staff actively work to gain knowledge of local and departmentwide issues through attending periodic meetings with inmate advisory councils (IACs) at California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the department) prisons. This report presents some of the common issues raised by the IACs regarding departmental processes, along with the OIG’s actions and recommendations pertaining to those issues.

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 regular mail, phone calls (toll-free hotline), and web inquiries through our website, which can exceed 800 complaints a month. Below are six complaints that the Intake Processing Unit reviewed and closed as of May 2024. These cases highlight the OIG’s impact and efforts to resolve the complainants’ concerns.

During May 2024, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team randomly selected 707 grievances for monitoring. This document presents four notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during May 2024.