July 16, 2009
State parole director to step down
The director of the state's mammoth parole system, Thomas Hoffman, is retiring from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration at the end of the month.
Hoffman, who joined the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2006, was credited in a memo today by state prisons chief Matt Cate for "serving as a catalyst of change, within a challenging correctional environment."
Cate said Hoffman had advanced evidence-based approaches to dealing with the state's parole system, which tracks 111,000 former prisoners…
LINK - LATimes.com
