This report addresses the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (the department) internal investigations and employee discipline cases that we monitored and closed between January 1, 2021, and June 30, 2021. We concluded that the department’s performance in conducting internal investigations and handling employee discipline cases was overall poor in the 109 cases we monitored and closed during this time period. We assessed the department’s performance as satisfactory in 57 cases and poor in 52 cases. We also determined that the department’s delays in processing dismissal cases during this reporting period resulted in unnecessary costs to the department and taxpayers totaling $299,304; over the past two and one-half years, the department has unnecessarily paid approximately $1,314,489 in salary and benefits to its employees due to these delays.