Receivership Threat for California State Prisons
/A federal judge threatened on Monday to
take over California's prison system after warning that a new contract
would harm efforts to root out corruption and abuse by guards. The
guards' union, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association,
has a pattern of lax discipline and interfering with investigations of
abuse, the judge, Thelton E. Henderson, wrote to Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger."If the State of California is no longer willing to
manage the necessary corrective actions," the judge wrote, "I must
consider the appointment of a receiver" over the corrections system. [more]
