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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.

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.

This report contains our assessment of the medical care provided to incarcerated people at California State Prison, Solano between July 2022 and December 2022. 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 Wasco State Prison between July 2022 and December 2022. 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 Valley State Prison between June 2022 and November 2022. 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 California State Prison, Los Angeles County between May 2022 and October 2022. We rated the case review component of the overall health care quality inadequate and the compliance component of the overall health care quality inadequate.

During the April 2024 review period, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team retrospectively reviewed 27 random local inquiry cases that were closed by the department from June 2023 through March 2024 in order to assess the department’s performance on local inquiry cases that our office did not contemporaneously monitor.