December 26, 2011
Matthew Cate directs prison downsizing
The usual measures of bureaucratic success for a state government agency are bigger budgets, expanding influence and a higher profile for the person at the very top.
Matthew Cate, secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, lacks all but the last.
As 2012 begins, the 45-year-old former deputy attorney general finds himself steering the department's historic downsizing with a flat budget and a federal court looking over his shoulder...
LINK - SacBee.com
