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| Schwarzenegger vows to clean up Calif. prisons |
| By Knight Ridder |
| Published: 08/17/2004 |
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In his most detailed remarks on California's prison crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reaffirmed his pledge to rehabilitate the state's 164,000 inmates and root out rogue officers who have given the sprawling system a black eye. Schwarzenegger's comments came as he finished a brief ``fact-finding'' mission to Mule Creek State Prison in the Sierra foothills. He is the first governor to tour a state prison since 1996. "When I became governor I found a system that was in disarray, wrapped in secrecy and with almost no accountability, financially or otherwise," the governor told reporters after seeing some of the prison's vocational programs and climbing up to a gun tower. Schwarzenegger, who in his body-building days visited prisons, praised the overwhelming majority of Corrections Department employees. But he cautioned against a code of silence that discourages guards from reporting problems. Rod Hickman, Schwarzenegger's corrections secretary, added: "As the old saying goes, we're going to have to break a few eggs to make this omelet and I'm not afraid to crack a few eggs." |
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