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. [
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