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$603,500 in Washington Jail Guard Discrimination Suit

Loaded on July 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News July, 2002, page 17
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Guards/Staff, Employee Litigation. Location: Washington.
In November, 2001, a King County (Seattle) Superior Court jury awarded $603,500 in damages to Ralph Bunch, a former guard at the King County Juvenile Detention Center. In May, 1999, Bunch, who is black, filed suit against the county claiming he was subjected to racial discrimination and later, he was …

 

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