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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.

During June 2024, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team monitored and closed 634 grievances. This document presents six notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during May 2024.

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.