Officials Reassigned to CYA Main Office

Two administrators who were suspended from their jobs at the scandal-plagued state juvenile prison in Camarillo have been reassigned to the prison’s main office in Sacramento, officials said Friday.

Chuck Kubasek and James J. McDuffy will report in mid-April to the California Youth Authority’s headquarters, where they will work for the authority’s deputy director of institutions and camps, a spokeswoman said.

In their previous posts, Kubasek and McDuffy helped run the Ventura School, a prison for boys and girls. Their new positions will be administrative, CYA spokeswoman Sarah Ludeman said.

Kubasek and McDuffy were placed on paid leave after the state inspector general’s office released a report detailing problems of lax management in Camarillo that failed to follow up on sexual misconduct among employees and inmates and resulted in unfair treatment and sexual harassment of female employees.

Kubasek was the school’s assistant superintendent and McDuffy was chief of security. School Supt. Mary Herrera was also removed. She was demoted and reassigned to a youth prison in Chino.

The inspector general’s probe is continuing at the same time as a separate internal investigation into possible criminal sexual misconduct by employees.