title: Jeffrey A. Beard
text: # Jeffrey A. Beard
  
  Jeffrey A. Beard is a retired prison official. Beard served as Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from December, 2012 to January, 2016. He previously served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, from 2001 until 2010.
  
  Beard first started working in corrections in Pennsylvania in 1972.
  
  