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| OpEd: Chief needs chance |
| By The Herald |
| Published: 04/18/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - A mess the size of the California Department of Corrections could never be fixed by one man, no matter how well he understands the issues, but here's hoping that young Matthew Cate has much more luck than the string of corrections secretaries who preceded him. Californians who care about the penal system and the size of their state tax bill also should be hoping that, this time, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't try to run the system himself through political functionaries. Cate, 41, named to the position on Tuesday, spent the past four years investigating California's prison system as head of the Office of the Inspector General within the department. He also is a former deputy state attorney general. It was Cate who determined that the department's $1 billion drug treatment program was useless and who uncovered a long list of inmate abuses and administrative blunders that have added to the department's reputation as the most dysfunctional arm of state government. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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