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Article • August 15, 2008
Washington Guard’s Demotion for Creating Hostile Work Environment Warranted by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held that demotion is proper for a prison guard who created a hostile work environment and abused his position when he used sexually offensive language and made jokes and innuendos of a …
$800,000 Awarded to Former California Guard for Racial Discrimination by Diane D. Epps, a former guard at a California Youth Authority (CYA) facility in Norwalk, settled her racial discrimination suit against the state for $800,000. She claimed she was denied promotions and was verbally abused by her supervisors. Epps was …
Article • July 15, 2008
Off Duty Conduct of Sexual Comments to Co-Worker Warrants Discipline, but not Termination by The State of Washington Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held that termination of a state employee for conduct occurring off-duty that adversely effects a co-workers work environment is too severe of a punishment. Before the PAB …
Alabama Guard Wins $205,000 in Sexual Harassment Suit by Mark Dempsey, a guard at an Alabama state prison, complained that his supervisor, Jim Gates was sexually harassing him. Gates, among other things, had made inappropriate homosexual remarks and jabbed Dempsey in the anal area with his nightstick. They met with …
Article • July 15, 2008
$40,000 Awarded Four Texas Probation Department Employees In Sexual Harassment Suit, by Nueces County (Texas) Community Supervision an Corrections Department (Department) probation officers Elana Rodriguez, Ida Aguilar, Carolina Balli-Kolpak and Sylvia Westrup filed § 1983 and Title VII civil rights action in 2007 against state officials. They claimed sexual harassment …
Rikers Island Guard Awarded $1 Million For Sexual Harassment By His Captain by Rikers Island (New York) prison guard Scott Singleton brought federal action against the City of New York for civil rights violations after sexual harassment by his captain ruined his home life and separated him from his daughter. …
Indiana APRA Required City to Disclose Settlement Agreement in Civil Action by Counsel for the city of Knightstown, Indiana negotiated a settlement agreement between the city and a female police dispatcher who sued the city and its police department for sexual harassment. A newspaper, called the Knightstown Banner (Banner), requested …
Washington Guard Settles Sex Discrimination Suit for $734,900 by Lenna Bradley, a Washington state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard, sued the state in state court after the DOC did nothing to remedy the sexual harassment she was subjected to by other guards. After she filed suit she was harassed by …
Oregon Sheriff Sentenced to Jail/Sex-Offender Registration by On August 28, 2007, the former sheriff of Curry County Oregon, was sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to register as a sex offender, for groping three female county employees. Mark Metcalf spent nearly 25 years in law enforcement. He was …
Article • December 15, 2007
Alabama Jail Dispatcher Awarded $250,157 for Sexual Harassment/Retaliation by A female jail dispatcher who was sexually harassed and retaliated against was awarded $250,157. Melissa Hunter was a jail dispatcher for the Barbour County, Alabama, Sheriff. In 2002, her supervisor, George Parham, subjected her to sexual harassment. Beginning in November, 2002, …
Gay NJ Guard Awarded $2.8 Million for Sexual Harassment, Discrimination by A New Jersey gay female jail guard was awarded $2,847,188, for discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation. Karen Caggiano began working in the prison transport unit of the Essex County Sheriff's Department in August 1993. "Caggiano, a lesbian and one …
California Prison Chaplain’s Sexual Harassment of Female Employee Yields $439,000 Jury Verdict by California Prison Chaplain's Sexual Harassment of Female Employee Yields $439,000 Jury Verdict A California prison employee who was sexually harassed by a Muslim chaplain was awarded $439,000. Sallie Mae Bradley was a temporary social worker at Corcoran …
Tennessee DOC’s Double Standard by G.A. Bowers Tennessee DOC's Double Standard by Greg Bowers The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) applies a double standard to ethical violations committed by its employees and those committed by prisoners. TDOC staff who commit ethical violations are typically reassigned. Even when fired, they have …
Texas Prison Chief Escapes Sex Charges, Convicted of Lesser Offenses by Gary Hunter On March 31, 2006, in a Walker County courthouse, Salvador ?Sammy? Buentello pleaded guilty to a felony charge of unlawful restraint and five counts of official oppression. Buentello, 50, had been the assistant director of gang affairs …
Article • May 15, 2007
Sexually Harassed California Prison Employees Awarded $1,978,376 by On February 18, 1997, a California superior court awarded three female prison employees a total of $1,978,376 for sexual harassment they experienced while working at a state prison. Plaintiffs, guards Blanche Leslie Ratcliff, 39, and Amber Gros, 40, assistant warden Linda George, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Maryland Guard's Sexual Harassment Suit Settled For $250,000 by While denying all claims of sexual harassment, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services on January 19, 2006 has agreed to a $250,000 settlement with former guard, LaShawn Jones, to avoid a trial. Jones claimed she endured sexual propositions, …
Article • May 15, 2007
$7,500 Paid to Washington DOC Employee for Negligent Investigation, Defamation, and Invasion of Privacy by $7,500 Paid to Washington DOC Employee for Negligent Investigation, Defamation, and Invasion of Privacy While employed as the Correctional Mental Health Program Manager at the Washington State Penitentiary, Daniel C. Assink was accused in an …
$3,500 Paid in WA Guard's Sexual/Martial Harassment Suit by Marvin Price-Haberman was a guard at the Washington Corrections Center. In January 1994, she filed a sexual harassment complaint. Thereafter, she was subjected to retaliation. A lawsuit filed by Price-Haberman and her husband Robert Haberman, also a guard, alleged they were …
$27,500 Tort Claim Settlement In Washington Employee Sexual Harassment Suit by In 1999 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with parole officer, Joanna Prideaux an employee at the Spokane parole office, for $27,500 for sexual harassment and retaliation. In 1998 Prideaux complained of incidents of sexual …
Article • May 15, 2007
$59,000 Paid in WA DOC Employee's Sexual Harassment Case by Jobina Pritchett was terminated as an employee of the Washington State McNeil Island Corrections Center after she reported to supervisors that she sexually harassed by fellow employees. Jobina and her husband Frank, represented by Stephen L. Bulzoni of the Messina …
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