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Assm. Nielsen blasts CDCR as corrupt, self-serving!

A north state lawmaker Monday blasted the state prison system he said he spent years trying to reform.

In a scathing interview, Assemblyman Jim Nielsen called the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) one of the most corrupt, self-serving bureaucracies in state government, one that routinely destroys documents to hide its mistakes and cares more for its own interests than public safety.

The Gerber Republican also blamed the agency's failure to follow one of its own policies for giving a convicted sex offender the opportunity to kill at least one Southern California teen...

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