Heck of a Job, Jim?
James Tilton, California's third Department of Corrections head within a year, helped create Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $6 billion prison building plan---which was immediately rejected by the state’s legislature. While generally considered bright, capable and well intentioned, critics say that Tilton has done little to address such major corrections problems as massive overcrowding, and a prison health care system that is in shambles. Nonetheless, following the lead of the private sector, on Wednesday the governor announced, without explanation, that he was giving Tilton a 70-percent raise over the salary of the last prison head, writes MARK MARTIN for the San Francisco Chronicle.