Texas Chaplain Who Complained of Jail Conditions Reinstated, Suit Settled
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2011
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Prison Legal News
September, 2011, page 36
In January 2011, Gail Hanson was reinstated as a volunteer chaplain at the Cameron County Jail in Brownsville, Texas. She had been banned from the facility after she publicly criticized conditions at the jail, and her reinstatement was part of a settlement in a civil rights lawsuit against the county ...
Filed under:
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Retaliation against Staff,
Clergy,
Guards/Staff,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
Texas.
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