Los Angeles County Probation Department
Terri McDonald is the chief probation officer with the Los Angeles County Probation Department. She is a former assistant sheriff for LA County Sheriff's Department, overseeing the Custody Division. McDonald is a 24-year veteran of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where she served as under-secretary for operations
LA County Probation Department woes Is LA County's Probation Department allocating funding properly?
Construction Delayed for New $2 Billion Jail Last year, LA County's Board of Supervisors approved a $2 billion plan to replace the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. But since then, two members were termed out and replaced by the voters. Yesterday, Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis joined Mark Ridley-Thomas in delaying the project to determine how big a new facility needs to be. Supervisor Kuehl joins us, along with Terri McDonald, who was with the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for 24 years. She's now Assistant to Sheriff Jim McDonnell.
Jail Officials Have a New Plan for Releasing Inmates Early The nation's biggest jail system is not big enough to hold all the people sentenced to serve time, and the state's realignment program has increased the pressure for early releases. Interim Sheriff John Scott will be asking the Board of Supervisors for a new, computerized system for assessing which inmates are least likely to commit new crimes. Assistant Sheriff Terri McDonald oversees the custody division.
Sheriff Lee Baca Installs a Reformer Last fall a blue-ribbon commission blamed Sheriff Lee Baca for violence against inmates at LA County jails. The general counsel said, "If he doesn't fix the jails, [Baca] should not be re-elected." Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, who ran the jails, has announced his retiremen t, and Baca has appointed an outsider to assume responsibility for nine facilities that house more than 18,000 inmates. Terri McDonald, formerly with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, is now the Assistant Sheriff overseeing the Custody Division.
Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
Will the Senate write a healthcare bill in secret? While Democrats and Republicans argue White House relations with Russia, another question is being decided behind closed doors: who gets help buying health insurance and who doesn't? We hear how the pros and cons are being shrouded in secrecy.