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Onetime jails chief returns to head troubled probation
By mynewsla.com- Stephanie Michaud
Published: 11/10/2016

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Wednesday formally appointed Terri McDonald, the onetime jails chief, to head the troubled Probation Department.

Supervisor Hilda Solis called McDonald a proven leader and said she “will provide the seasoned command, leadership and management skills that the county needs right now.”

Solis said the board had been looking for a candidate with a commitment to both public safety and the rehabilitation of offenders.

McDonald — who stepped down from her role at the Sheriff’s Department earlier this year — was hired three years earlier by then-Sheriff Lee Baca in an effort to reform a culture of intimidation and violence against jail inmates.

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