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| No. 2 official in corrections announces he will resign |
| By Mercury News |
| Published: 06/20/2005 |
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Kevin Carruth, who was recruited to help overhaul the state's troubled prison system, on Monday abruptly announced his departure after 18 months on the job. ``There comes a time in everyone's life for change, and now is the most appropriate time for me to make that change,'' said Carruth, 57, who took a pay cut when he left his job as Santa Clara County's general services agency manager to join the governor's prison team. As second in command of the Youth & Adult Correctional Agency, Carruth was a key adviser on high-profile issues, ranging from ways to improve the state's troubled prison health care system to sweeping reforms in the state's youth prisons. His annual salary is $123,708. Carruth's retirement after 35 years in public service is effective June 30, just as a major reorganization of prisons is set to take place with the creation of a Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. His exit leaves a hole for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to fill at a crucial time. Carruth had been expected to be nominated to one of the top posts in the department. But Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, said Carruth would have faced an uphill fight to win confirmation by the Senate had he been named undersecretary of the new agency. Noting that Carruth had overseen a major prison construction boom in the 1980s and early 1990s, Romero described him as part of the ``old guard'' responsible for the prison system's overspending and juvenile program failures. |
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