Power struggle over California prisons
The administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says prison guards flood wardens with greviences to intimidate them and exert undue influence on a state prison system riven by crisis.
Now the governor is trying to take back some of that power, which was ceded to the politically formidable union in a contract awarded by former Gov. Gray Davis in 2001 and renegotiated three years ago by the current administration. MICHAEL ROTHFELD in the Los Angeles Times.