Medical care at California State Prison, Corcoran received a poor rating in a recently published state watchdog review. Now, prison advocates worry that doesn’t bode well for the quality of care during the pandemic. Corcoran’s medical care received a rating of “Inadequate,” the lowest rating possible, in a report published in April by the state Office of the Inspector General (OIG) . The OIG is an independent government agency that monitors health care, employee conduct, and other operations within the state’s prisons. The report gave the lowest grades to the facility’s diagnostic and preventive services, nursing and provider performance, and compliance with a variety of health care policies. “To see that things had really not gone well, that in particular what they found were problems with nursing and provider performance…that’s very troubling,” says Alison Hardy, an attorney with the non-profit Prison Law Office who’s been tracking health care at Corcoran and other state prisons for
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