"And the U.S.State Department sentenced no opposition figures, intellectuals,journalists or bloggers to prisons in Syria,Egypt,Saudi Arabia and elsewhere around the Middle East, where they were subject to torture, rape and murder.
VOA: standard.2010.03.18
The prisonsdepartment was not rushing to find replacements when, a year ago, one hangman retired and another was promoted.
Three years ago, Schwarzenegger appeared to throw down the gauntlet, saying the union was an obstacle to his efforts to reform the state's prisonsdepartment.
From October 2007 until January 2011, Clements was the director of adult institutions for the department, the biography says, overseeing 21 adult prisons.