I won't get political so this is all I will say...there have been very valid concerns about how he runs his jails. Its about him and his politics, nothing more. He is extreme in some areas and scarily lax in others. People hear a lot about the extreme.
The govt has been pressured to finally do something. I don't get involved with things that are passionately pro or anti A. But suffice to say there have been and continue to be some deep concern. If there wasn't, the government would leave him alone. In my county, our sheriff is tough, and prisons aren't picnics and shouldn't be. He does not coddle them. We, however, don't have his issues that A has....we have our own for sure, but nothing like his. He makes his own problems. After working with former inmates of both counties...I started seeing a pattern in many (not all) that ended up down where I am. It's something I can't articulate well into words...and in this forum it wouldn't be appropriate anyway. It's not scientific but a personal observation.