This report addresses the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s internal investigations and employee discipline cases that we monitored and closed between July 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019. We concluded that the department’s performance in…

Addressing Complaints of Improper Governmental Activities Within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. This is our first report dedicated to the work we perform in response to complaints we receive from inmates, family members, and other concerned individuals…

This annual report summarizes the work the Office of the Inspector General completed during 2019, including the 12 public reports we issued. The report also enumerates the recommendations we made to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2019, as well as the department’s responses and plans to address our recommendations.

Attorneys within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the department) provided inaccurate legal advice to department executives regarding the ability to sustain disciplinary charges based on inmate testimony alone. In this Sentinel Case report, we describe the facts of the case, explain our position, and set forth our concerns should the department attorneys continue to advise hiring authorities that disciplinary charges cannot be sustained without corroborating testimony from noninmate witnesses.

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, 2019, and June 30, 2019.

This report summarizes the OIG’s 10th report on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s progress implementing its report titled The Future of Corrections: A Blueprint to Save Billions of Dollars, End Federal Court Oversight, and Improve the Prison System (the Blueprint).