We haven't seen any red flags to indicate an increase in incidents of inmate-on-inmate or inmate-on-staff violence.

We encourage the union to express their concerns at monthly labor-management meetings. They can always go the warden on a daily basis.

We have to work within a budget. We feel we are doing that safely and securely and we evaluate this process at our facilities every day. We are but one agency in the state that must compete for budget resources.

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.