WA Mail Theft Whistleblower's Emotional Distress Award Vacated by A Washington Appeals Court reversed a jury's award of $4,891 for emotional distress in favor of a Washington Department of Correction's employee and dismissed the case. The employee had reported to supervisors that theft of money from prisoner's mail was occurring. …
WICC Not Federal Law by In a case filed by New Mexico prisoners transferred to Washington, a Washington federal district court has held that the Western Interstate Corrections Compact (WICC) does not confer federal rights on prisoners, which are enforceable via 42 U.S. C. §1983. The Court made this holding …
WA Prisoner Gets Major Infractions Expunged And Good Time Restored After Filing PRP by The Washington State Court of Appeals, Division 3., dismissed the Personal Restraint Petition (PRP), of Waldo E. Waldron-Ramsey, after the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC), expunged the infraction's he had been found guilty of, and restored …
$3,000 Tort Claim Awarded In Washington Employee Disability Suit by In 1998 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a tort claim with James D. Burns a prison guard at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton for $3,000. In 1994 Burns had a portion of his left foot removed due …
$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 …
$6,285,436 Awarded In Washington Parolee Wrongful Death Suit by In 1997 a Pierce county Superior Court Jury in Washington awarded $6,285,436 to Sylvia McFarland for the wrongful death of her 17 year old daughter Meeka Willinham. On August 19, 1994, a man named Johnny Robert Eggers entered Meeka's bedroom and …
$7,500 Settlement To Victims Of Washington Parolee Scam In Tacoma, Washington by In 1994 the Washington State Department of Corrections gave $7,500 to the plaintiffs Olva Kleiva and Manda Kleiva, Martin Toso and Joyce Toso, Eugene Perrine and Ute Perrine, for their money being stolen by a parolee named Richard …
$10,000 Paid in WA Unfair Labor Practice Charges by Pauline Wesen was a Sergeant at the Washington Corrections Center. In January 2001 she became the subject of untrue rumors started by staff members to defame her. She was eventually demoted to guard. Her complaint with the Offices of Risk Management …
$14,000 Tort Claim Settlement In Washington On Smoking Suit by In 1999 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a tort claim with correctional sergeant, Ladean Ryan for $14,000. In 1995 the plaintiff complained to her supervisor at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton that she could not work in …
$26,467 Awarded In Washington Employee Disability Suit by In 1995 the Washington State Department of Corrections was ordered to pay $20,000 for attorney's fees and $6,467 for costs incurred, for a total of $26,467 to Larry Uribe the DOC's statewide grievance coordinator. In 1986 Larry Uribe suffered a stroke and …
$51,050 Paid in WA Retaliation Claim by Mark Wayne Clark had previously prevailed in a retaliation lawsuit against Sgt. Patrick O'Conner while at the Washington State Penitentiary when he was placed in O'Conner's unit at the prison. Shortly thereafter, O'Conner began harassing Clark and instituted disciplinary proceedings stating Clark had …
$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 …
$6,798 Paid for Injuries Sustained in Washington Riot by James C. Cobb and Carvell Gardner, McNeil Island prisoners, filed suit in Washington's Pierce County Superior Court alleging negligent supervision on September 5, 1992, that resulted in a riot that caused death to one prisoner and unspecified to severe injuries to …
$60.00 Paid in Destroyed WA Prisoner's Property by Washington State Penitentiary prisoner Vincent L. Fields filed a tort suit in the Walla Walla Superior Court alleging negligence for the destruction or theft of unspecified personal property. Fields was placed in segregation and his property was placed in the property room. …
$62,000 Paid in WA DOC Cook's Sexual Harassment Suit by Cheryl J. Danner was employed at the Washington Correction Center as a kitchen employee. For over a year she was subjected to sexually explicit comments, directions, innuendo, and indecent propositions by her supervisor Oliver Coleman. After Danner filed a complaint …
$30,000 Tort Claim Award In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit by In 2000 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a tort claim with Dave P. Rotz a cook at the McNeil Island Correctional Center in Steilacoom for $30,000. In 1996 Rotz was subject to discrimination due to his disability and …
$40,000 Settlement In Washington Employee Wrongful Termination Suit by In 1999 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Dorothy Holt and Janet Holt, mother and daughter who were nurses at Washington Corrections Center, for $40,000 for wrongful termination. Plaintiff's brought suit after being terminated for complaining …
$45,000 Awarded In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit by In 1994 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Sergeant Lonny Earles for $45,000. In 1985 Earles was working at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, he filed a grievance against Lieutenant Grandemontagne for threatening to pull him …
$47,000 Settlement In Washington Employee Wrongful Termination Suit by In 1998 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Debra M. Schruder for $47,000. In 1995 Ms.Schruder was terminated from her position as a guard. Ms.Schruder was injured while working for DOC and while she was recovering …
$49,500 Settlement In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit by In 1997 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Victor Carter, Kathy Allen, and Pablo Mendoza for $16,500 each for a total of $49,500. All three plaintiffs were employed at the Yakima-Kittitas County Work Release as guards. They …
