The top operations official in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has resigned to take a new job with the prison system's medical care receiver.
Corrections undersecretary in charge of operations Dave Runnels, a 26-year department veteran, will be joined in his departure from the upper ranks of California prison management by Wendy Still, the agency's leader on female inmate issues. Like Runnels, Still is headed over to the receiver's office.
A third upper-level corrections manager also is leaving the agency. Scott Carney, the deputy director of financial services, has resigned and will move to the Department of Health and Human Services.
At the office of the receiver, established by a federal judge to take charge of the prison system's $2 billion medical operation, Runnels will be the chief security consultant in the office's plan to build seven new long-term care facilities for 10,500 inmates, according to spokesman Luis Patino.
Still, who had been in charge of female offender programs and services for the corrections agency, will become receiver J. Clark Kelso's "expert" on the two long-term care facilities for female offenders, Patino said.
Patino said Runnels and Still will be making about the same amount of money they were being paid at corrections – about $161,000 a year for him and $135,000 for her.
They will join a stream of top corrections officials who have left the agency and taken new jobs with the receiver over the past two years.
Call Andy Furillo, (916) 321-1141.
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