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Male NJ Guard's Sexual Harassment Suit Settled for $425,000
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2000, page 16
On December 6, 1999, the New Jersey Department of Corrections agreed to pay $425,000 to Mid State Correctional Facility employee Thomas Ferri, 55, to settle his sexual harassment suit against the prison. Ferri, an internal affairs investigator at the prison, claimed he was sexually harassed by his supervisor, Deborah A. …
Filed under:
Staff-Staff Harassment,
Discrimination,
Gender Discrimination -- Men,
Damages,
Settlements,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
New Jersey.
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