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Florida: Drug Arrest Costs Former Prison Official Retirement Benefits

Loaded on June 3, 2016 published in Prison Legal News June, 2016, page 46
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Pensions, Employee Litigation. Location: Florida.

On May 10, 2016, Administrative Law Judge G.W. Chisenhall upheld a decision by the Florida State Board of Administration (Board) to strip retirement benefits from Charles G. Combs, a former major at the Florida State Prison who was arrested for buying Oxycodone from Dylan Hilliard, a guard who worked at ...

 

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