I'm not sure which one is scarier as a person who now holds the potentially presidency seat.
They weren't her prisons.
The Secretary of California's Department of Correction and Rehabilitation is responsible for prisons.
Attorney generals and district attorneys aren't going to know about a secret program in another department.
Would you know if another department at your employer had a secret project? This is doubly so for an illegal program like involuntary sterilization.
It's not like they receive monthly reports about all the illegal programs that other departments are conducting.
If you're going to rake anyone over the coals for this, go after the Secretaries of California's Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. They were in charge of the department and accountability ends at the top.