Associated Press
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Gov. Brian Sandoval says he asked the director of the Nevada Department of Corrections to resign in part because a report about shootings in the state’s prisons was late.
Sandoval said that he was very firm that the consultant report be presented at a Tuesday meeting of the Board of Prison Commissioners, which he’s part of. He said he found out the report was not ready on Monday, the same day that director Greg Cox’s resignation was announced.
Cox led the agency since 2011. Longtime Department of Corrections employee E.K. McDaniel will lead the agency in the interim until a new leader is found.
The corrections department faces multiple lawsuits over prison shootings, including one that left an inmate dead on Nov. 12 but wasn’t widely reported for months.