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| New corrections chief named |
| By Miami Herald |
| Published: 06/28/2004 |
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Admitting he didn't do a thorough background check, Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess rescinded his recommendation of Orange County's former corrections chief and instead promoted longtime corrections worker Charles McRay to run the department. Lobbying by co-workers and a decade-old newspaper article about his Orange County rival helped propel McRay to the department's top spot Tuesday. Commissioners voted McRay in unanimously as people in the crowded commission chamber broke into applause. When Burgess announced his recommendation Tuesday to commissioners, he admitted he did not do an adequate background check on Tom Allison, his initial choice. McRay has been acting director of the department since former Director Lois Spears resigned last summer. She quit after the county's building director, Charles Danger, wrote a critical report on the county's jail system, calling the Turner Guilford Knight [TGK] correctional facility a fire trap. Most of those concerns have since been addressed. McRay will oversee the nation's fourth largest jail system: seven jails that house more than 6,500 inmates, with a $211 million budget and 2,500 employees. |
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