March 12, 2009
3 aides to Calif prison receiver quit
The top three aides to California's embattled court-appointed prison receiver have abruptly quit. An e-mail obtained Thursday by The Associated Press from the trio to the receiver's staff and outside attorneys says the three are leaving "effective immediately."
The resignations come five days before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration asks a federal judge to end the receivership, which controls medical care in the state's 33 adult prisons.
Chief of Staff John Hagar, his assistant Steve Weston and Terry Hill, the chief medical officer, cite "irreconcilable differences" over the "new direction of the receivership" under receiver J. Clark Kelso. Kelso took over a year ago…
LINK - MercuryNews.com
